Consolidation Fails After Manual Deletions
I commonly have this problem. My backups have cleanup turned on, but my settings for the number of fulls + incrementals might run out of space. So I manually delete some old files to clear out space. At that point Acronis will create a backup but fail in consolidation since files it expected to delete are gone. To get past those errors what I've done in the past is to start a whole new fresh full backup, not specifying any cleanup, then go in and change it to a having incrementals with cleanup. There's got to be a better way to do this, isn't there? Is there a way to get the existing cleanup process to ignore files it thinks it needs to removed when they're not there? It's really a pain specifying a whole new full, then adjusting it to full with incrementals, just to get past these errors.


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Steve: I ran a validation and it complained when it couldn't find a file, but it didn't give me an option to ignore that file. In this case it's Acronis 2014, so maybe that version didn't have the option, but my only choices were Retry, Browse or Cancel". What can be done then? - Joel
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Joel, the Cancel option should give the same result as Ignore in later versions - it's been a while since I have used the 2014 version.
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In reply to Joel, the Cancel option… by truwrikodrorow…

Maybe it did, but it seemed like the Cancel just cancelled the whole validation process.
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Joel, have you checked the logs for the results of the validation action? There should be a log for this which may give more information.
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