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Deleting past backups.

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I back up my main SSD with windows and another HDD where my data is, as two seperate backup operations.

The chains are set to delete older backups automatically but I have found they sometimes only do this after a carrying out a backup.

This has resulted in a few occassions where the backup stopped because there was not anough room on the backup drive. This is simply remedied by deleted past backups manually. But if I delete an old backup in the chain manually TI seems to get confused and I have ended up having to create a complete new backup chain.

In previous versions of TI it was possible to delete older versions in a chain from within the program itself and it would know that version has been deleted, but with this version it doesn't seem possible.

Could anyone advise me of the correct procedure for doing this so that TI doesn't get confused?

thanks

B

 

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B, welcome to these user forums.

The way that automatic cleanup works is that is will only delete old backup version chains after a new full backup for a new version chain has been successfully created - this is a design decision by Acronis to try to safeguard from deleting the old backups then not creating a new one, leaving you with no backups at all.

At a minimum, your backup storage drive will need to have sufficient space to hold at least 2 full backup images for a backup task, and if you are using a backup scheme with incremental or differential backups, then the space required needs to be increased to include all the incremental or differential backups for each completed version chain.

If you do manually delete backup files, then you should always perform a Validation for the backup task that created those deleted files.  Validation will attempt to reconcile the Acronis Database information with the status of the backup files still remaining for the task - when a deleted file is found, a message will be shown giving you options to either find the backup or to ignore the missing one - take the ignore option for each deleted file.

Many thanks for the clarification Steve, yes that solved my issue.

Barry

 

Barry, thanks for the feedback, glad the information was helpful.