Cleaning out old backups
Hi.
I have a NAS that I use for backups and I have scheduled ATI to backup once a week on each of 4 PCs. ATI is configured as an incremental backup and a full backup every 3 increments. It is supposed to delete chains that are older than 1 backup.
To indicate one instance, the latest backup is B7 but it has S1, S2, S3, S4. There is no B6, part of B5 (S2 and S3) and B1_S1_V1 and V2 (it's not configured to keep the original).
The questions are, can I delete everything older than B7 manually and why is it doing this?
Cheers


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In reply to Daylef, it is difficult to… by truwrikodrorow…

Hi Steve
I checked the log and it doesn't throw up any warning or error just the standard process with "Operation has succeeded". I have noted that the log shows "deleting xxx" sometimes. What I think I might do is tick the validation box and invoke a backup manually. I'll report back.
Cheers
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In reply to Hi Steve… by truwrikodrorow…

I deleted the old backups manually and it seems ok. The validation didn't do anything other than take up a huge amount of time. I'll keep watching for the same thing over time.
Cheers
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Thanks for the update, validation can take a long time depending on the size of the version chain(s) involved. All the best for 2018.
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