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Deleting backup versions

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For the first time that I started using Acronis, I would like to maually delete some old file backup versions that are on my external drive. Do I have to boot Acronis from my recovery disk to access and manage my backup versions? Or is there a way to delete versions using the program running in Windows without rebooting? It looks like that is the only way; just wondering if I was missing something. Thanks.

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Bruce, do you still have any tasks showing in the Acronis GUI that created any of the backups you are wanting to delete?

If not, then you can simply delete the backups using Windows Explorer.

If you still have those tasks then if you manually delete associated backups for a task, you should follow this by doing a validation for the task, this is needed to reconcile the information held in the Acronis Database files for the task to reflect the files that still exist.

There is no need to boot from the Acronis Rescue Media as this still would not reconcile the database files if the creating task is still present.

Please note that the recommended process for managing backups is to configure the automatic cleanup rules for your backup tasks so that you only keep your set amount of backup version chains.  A version chain = a full backup and all associated differential or incremental  files for the same backup sequence as shown by the _bx_ indicator in the file names, i.e. all the _b1_ files = the 1st backup version chain.