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ATIH 2010 Consolidate Old incremental backups

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I have some incremental backups for an old machine, basically too many! They are taking up too much room on my hard disk so I would like to consolidate them. I don't have this machine any more so I am unable to incorporate this a part of a backup schedule.

How can I consolidate these backups using ATIH 2010?

Any help much appreciated

Charlie

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Hello Charles,

I understand the question and will try to give you a descriptive answer.

There are two kinds of backup consolidation procedures in Acronis True Image Home: automatic consolidation and file name-based consolidation. In the case of automatic consolidation, the program uses the rules set for backup archives. After creating a backup, the program checks the backup archive for quota violations, such as exceeding a preset maximum number of gigabytes set aside for backups and, if any limitation is exceeded, consolidates the oldest backups.

In your case we should use file name-based consolidation. The file name-based consolidation allows deleting the backups that you do not need anymore from any archive while maintaining the archive consistency. If required, you can delete from an archive the base full backup. The program will create another full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup.

To consolidate backups in an archive:


1. Select the archive for consolidation after choosing Recovery on the sidebar.
2. Start the Consolidation Wizard by right-clicking on the selected backup archive and choose Consolidate in the shortcut menu.
3. The program displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with their creation date and time. The top backup is the full backup; the rest are incremental backups. Select the backups you want to keep and click Next.
4. By default, the program selects the same location for the consolidated archive and the original backup archive will be overwritten. But you can choose a new location and in such case the source archive will stay as is, unless you choose to delete it by selecting the Delete original archive box. This requires more disk space, but ensures the security of the archive in case the consolidation fails because of power failure or a lack of disk space. To choose a new location, click Options on the Summary screen.

Note: You cannot choose another location when consolidating backups in an archive located in Acronis Secure Zone.

5. After choosing the new location click Proceed to start consolidation. In our example, when consolidation is complete, disk G will contain two new archives Disk1_backup2 and Disk1_backup4. Disk1_backup2 is a full backup and Disk1_backup4 is an incremental backup. You can make sure of this by starting the consolidation wizard again, selecting the archive Disk1_backup and proceeding to the next window.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.