Do not delete the first version of the backup?
I'm doing an incremental backup, with a new "full" every 30 days. I have been doing that for years, and since the manual consolidation feature disappeared I've been doing my cleanup by hand. That's a pain, because then you have to keep saying "skip" to get TI to understand what you've done.
Thinking I'd finally found a way around this, I told TI 2016 to store no more than 3 recent version chains, and I checked the "Do not delete the first version of the backup" box.
I thought this option would keep the "full" files while deleting the "inc" files. Apparently, I was dead wrong. All of my older full backups are now gone. I now have three full backups with their associated version chains.
So, what exactly does that box do?

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Well, manual consolidation hasn't come back yet. I guess we'll have to wait to see if they put it back into ATI 2017.
There is a supported way of doing this, but you have to do it from the rescue media. That's not very handy.
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