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Incremental Backups, will it delete files already on the image?

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Hi,

I have had Acronis True Image Home for a year or so, I think, but I'm concerned with file security. I'm not concerned of whether they are safe, but if they will be deleted. My C: drive is running low on space and I have created a full backup and done incremental backups since then. I want to delete files off of my C: drive to free up more room on my drive. When I do the incremental backup will it keep those files if they were deleted off the source drive (C:) or will it assume it should delete it from the image as well?

Thanks,
For any help you can provide on this topic

P.S.

Do you have any suggestions, if necessary, of where to get inexpensive IDE drives for a desktop or External Hard Drives?

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Hi Donnie

You could consolidate the incrementals to reduce the amount of them but before you do that I would recommend doing a full backup.

What version of ATIH are you using and how many incrementals do you have - it could take some time to consolidate things down to a manageable level.

I am assuming that you have no interest in the files in the incrementals that you have taken over time. If you need those files then you will need to move the images to an external drive which can be done from within ATIH.

Any suitable sized USB connected drive would do you local computer shop should be able to help but there are plenty of such things on Amazon. use "USB Disks" as a search term - I use a Freecom Classic 500GB but there are many others.

The incrementals record the changes since the full backup, so the full would have the files in them and the incs would show that the files have been deleted. Once you consolidate all the incs and the full into one full backup, it will refleect that state of the source disk at the time of the lat backup. If you want to keep files, I suggest you make a backup of those files onto a spare drive (say a usb drive) and keep those in a safe place. Then you can resotre those files at any time, at least so long as you keep the backups.

Depending on how much data you can afford to lose, you could do occasional backups to the external or spare drive, and msot of your backups to your current backup-staroage drive. For example, do daily backups and once a week to do a backup to the 3rd drive. And consolidate those on the 3rd drive when necessary to maintain space to continue backups.