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I have a second internal hard drive dedicated to holding backup images. It is only big enough to hold two version chains. The problem I have is that automatic cleanup deletes the oldest chain immediately after the most recent full backup rather than before starting it. Because of this, Acronis only lets me keep one version chain at a time, even though the drive is big enough to hold two version chains.

Is there any way to get Acronis to delete the oldest chain before the next full backup starts rather than after the next full backup finishes?

Vista SP2
True Image 2011
Build 6696

Tom

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Hello Thomas,

Thank you for posting. I will do my best to help you.

The program was designed this way for security reasons, this way you are left with at least 1 backup in case of any failure.

However, if you could provide some real numbers about your partition, backup and storage location sizes we may try to find a more robust workaround for you.

Should you need additional assistance, please let me know.

Thank you.

Real numbers? Okay

Primary hard drive has 3 partitions.
C: 107 Gig used out of 229 available.
D: 6 Gig used out of 10 available (Dell recovery).
K: 55 Gig used out of 225 available.

Second hard drive has one partition, holds backup image chains.
About 430 Gig of available space.
Image chain is one full backup + 3 incrementals. (C, D & K)
The full backup is about 122 gig.
The incrementals are each about 10 gig.
I do the image/incremental once each week.

For what it's worth, I also do a daily files-and-folders backup of my important data. This also goes to the second hard drive, but this does not use any of the 430 gig I listed above. It is relatively small and quick.

Thomas,

Just in case the space allocation is messed up on the 2nd hard drive containing the chains,
how about running a check from the command line.

CHKDSK X: /F (where x is the drive letter for the 430 of available space.