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I am new to TI, and cannot quite understand what to select when attempting to do a manual consolidation. The initial dialog box has the last differential backup selected, but if I check BROWSE... TI will not allow me to select a DIFF backup, only the FULL. Is that what I am supposed to check?

What I really want to do is have one FULL backup, then do a DIFF daily, keeping only the last two DIFF backups. What is the best way to get this done??

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There is no way to do exactly what you are desiring automatically using Acronis's built it cleanup or consolidation.

You can manually delete the differential backup files of your choice while in True Image by right clicking on the backup task, and selecting Recover Files. In the Time Explorer display, along the bottom of the screen, you will see dates/times. Right click on the desired item and a menu will appear allowing you to delete that slice of the backup chain.

If you use any other method outside of Acronis to delete the differential backup files, this will confuse the Acronis database creating validation issues, and possible adding to difficulty restoring from the backup chain in Windows. Only the last differential and full backup are necessary for a proper restore, but Acronis will still complain if the intermediate files are removed outside of the program, but will still allow restore with some persuasion.

OK, I have tried to do this per your instructions. I get as far as the selecting Recover Files, and I get an empty dialog box with a search field and an error (or warning) message saying "There are no versions of the backup." There is a spinning circle in the middle of the page, but after letting it run a while, nothing happens.

The main recovery page says there are 29 versions.

On the task itself, you should be able to click on the destination shown.

Open the destination through True Image and verify that the files are located there.

Did you delete any of the related files using Windows Explorer/File Explorer before attempting to do this through True Image?

Thanks for your help, James.

James F wrote:

Open the destination through True Image and verify that the files are located there.

If I understand what you mean here, I click on the directory shown after "Location:". When I do this, it opens Windows Explorer and shows all the files I expect to see; a FULL backup, and and 27 DIFFs.

However, TI shows 30 versions under "Versions:", says the last one was created at 2:30 AM this morning (when the dailies are scheduled). However, backups stopped working three days ago, due to the destination drive being full. So is TI incorrectly counting failures as completed versions?

James F wrote:

Did you delete any of the related files using Windows Explorer/File Explorer before attempting to do this through True Image?

No, I have not used Windows Explorer to delete anything.

When you say this cannot be done automatically with TI, I am a bit confused. What are the automatic consolidation settings for? I thought setting a limit on the number of backups with this feature would do the trick.

I had set this to 35, but obviously ran out of space before reaching that number, so I have yet to test this out....

Please take a look at Grover's excellent guide on how to create a task that manages disk space.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/38691

and

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

Nice tip, looking at Grover's guide. Thanks.

I decided to start over, so I chose "Delete" and told TI to delete the settings and the files. I have a total of 28 files (one Full, 27 Diff) totalling about 976 GB. Should it take TI hours to complete the deletion? It has been "Deleting backup..." for 6 hours now, and nothing has been actually deleted from the destination disk.

Force close the program.

Reboot.

Open True Image and delete the settings of the backup only (Remove from list under the "more" option).

Close True Image.

Using Windows Explorer, delete the files.

Open True Image, and create a new task pointing to a newly created empty folder on the destination disk.