Proper Procedure of Getting Rid of Old Backups
I'm running Acronis 2017 on a Windows 7 Desktop. I have Acronis configured to run an incremental backup every day and to create a full version after every 6 incremental versions. At this point the full backup is 1.6 TB so in order to avoid having to have absurd quantities of hard drive space on hand I need to get rid of old backups. What's the proper way to do this? Right now I can't run a full backup until I get rid of the previous full backup but this is clearly not the right way to do things because even though the backups still seem to be running, if I try to restore a file I get a message about "cannot find version 1" and so on. I can see the last full backup on my backup drive but for some reason Acronis apparently can't restore from it. Thanks!


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Thanks Steve. I saw that setting to do with version chains but misunderstood what it meant and how to use it.
So, here's what I'm up against. One backup version chain is about 1.7 TB. Since my backup drive is 3TB this means I can't fit more than one version chain on the drive, and that's already with the backup set to only backup the files that actually need to be backed up. I have 5 hard drives and I've gone through and selected the files I want to have backed up. (I'm a photographer and work with very large image files so that's why I've got so much data.) So, it seems like the best solution would be to get a 4TB or even a 5TB drive.
In the meantime, I'll try the technique of validating the backup.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
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Bruce,
There is a good deal on external 6TB Seagate drives HERE
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