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How to Manage a Fallback task and Deletion of Backup Files

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I have a simple File Backup set to perform a Fallback data drive File Backup once a month to a drive separate to my regular weekly backups.

The backup is set not to keep any versions however, it does not appear to delete the last version BEFORE starting the new backup which indicates the drive must be capable of holding at least 2 backups of the data drive? This could make sense but as I am only using this drive as a fallback it is not so critical?
1. Am I correct in assuming the deletion occurs AFTER the current backup is completed? Does anyone have any suggestions for automatically managing this within the parameter settings of the file backup task?

2. My other question also pertains to the above and is "has Acronis changed the method of manually deleting backups for Trueimage 2013?
I don't want to corrupt the metadata library for Trueimage by deletion through Windows Explorer so tried what seems to be the documented standard of going to the backup task timeline to delete only the backup file / archive version. It appears the only option is to delete the files AND the settings? The dialogue box contains two options, Whole backup (incl settings) or Setting Only?
The only way I have found around this is to Clone the settings and create another backup task and then delete files and settings. Clunky but works in my case as I only keep one file backup version.
If a method exists it is certainly not easy to find so any help would be appreciated.

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Automatic deletion does not occur until after the new backup is created. That is an intentional, prudent sequence to prevent you from having no backups if new backup creation were to fail.

You can right-click a backup task to select specific backup archives to delete without deleting the task.