Consolidating backups ?
Aloha Acronis Experts! I'm trying to free up some space on a NAS device I use for backups. I have several backups (both full images and incremental) from a machine that no longer exists. But, I do want to save the last full image + incrementals in the most compact format possible. Here are the files in the backup directory:
11/22/2016 12:44 AM 340,860,238,848 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_full_b1_s1_v1.tib 11/28/2016 05:43 PM 1,904,707,584 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b1_s2_v1.tib 12/05/2016 05:55 PM 32,692,592,128 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b1_s3_v1.tib 12/12/2016 05:46 PM 7,972,170,752 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b1_s4_v1.tib 12/19/2016 05:45 PM 3,001,414,144 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b1_s5_v1.tib 12/26/2016 05:45 PM 2,217,474,560 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b1_s6_v1.tib 01/02/2017 06:17 PM 204,448,762,368 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_full_b2_s1_v1.tib 01/09/2017 05:45 PM 1,777,147,904 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b2_s2_v1.tib 01/16/2017 05:46 PM 2,962,616,832 Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB_inc_b2_s3_v1.tib
First, the last full image was taken on 01/02/2017, so I'm assuming I can delete all the older files.
What I would really like to do is somehow combine the full backup taken on 01/02/2017 and the two newer increcmentals info a single file. Is this called Consolidation? If so, then from what I've been able to find, this function no longer exists in TI2017. Can someone here please assist me with how to do this? (And don't forget, the machine that these backups are for no longer exists, so I have to have a procedure I can run from a different machine with TI2017 installed).
Mahalo! (Thank you)
Harry Z.


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Aloha Bobbo_3C0X1. Mahalo for the reply.
Can I run the validation for these backups on a different machine than where the backups were created?
Harry Z
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Harry, the point of doing the validation is to reconcile the Acronis Database files information for the backup task that created the backups with the status of the files that are still present after deleting files manually outside of Acronis.
So if you run a validation on a different machine, all that you will achieve is the basic function of validation, which is to recalculate the checksum for the backup file(s) and compare this to the value stored within the backup file to prove that they have not been changed or corrupted.
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Aloha Steve Smith. Thanx for the reply. Unfortunately, not the answer I was hoping for. :-)
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