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I'm running Win7 Home, and I have TI 2012. I have a 1 TB external HD I'm backing up to. I'm up to 75% of my external drive disk space, so I tried to figure out how to remove/ consolidate some backups. I want to do a partition backup because I'm under the impression that I will just be able to reimage my machine in case of a virus or system failure. (please correct me if I'm wrong). I'm also doing just a file backup as a "just in case"

I can't figure out what to delete from my external drive to regain space. I did the "one full, then incremental" scheme. Can I wipe out just incrementals? If so, can I just go to my external drive and delete them or do I somehow have to inform TI that I've done this? I tried consolidating them using that option, but every time I try to run it, it fails.

Would it be possible to point me to a kb article or can someone give me some advice?

If you say I have to wipe everything out, I would like to know if there is a way to keep the initial back up as that's a clean backup when my system was new.

Thanks!

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leann,

In general it is not recommended to mess around with ATI files, because users can easily make a mistake and delete, move or delete a file that will make a whole backup completely crippled and useless.
In your case, since you have only a full and one incremental, you should be able to easily recognize which one is which.
You can:
- move the TIB file(s) you want to keep for posterity to another folder on the same disk: this way ATI will not delete it,
- move any TIB file(s) you want to temporarily keep to yet another folder, for the same reason,
- then, delete the task in ATI. ATI will complain it could not delete certain files (that you moved). It is OK.
- delete any remaining TIB file in the directory, if any,
- create a new backup task with autocleaning turned on. Select the setting where ATI keep only X most recent version chains. Choose X so that you always have enough space for a new full backup and some buffer,
- after a while, you can delete the TIB file you don't want to keep for posterity.