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? delete incremental images with no risk

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Maybe this has been posted already somewhere, but I have not been lucky to track this down:
Is is safe to delete all in-between parts of an incremental image, just keeping the base and and the last saved .tib ?
Disk space has been eaten off and intermediate backups are no longer needed, need only to keep last status. As base data is > 400GB I do not want to start a full backup via network....

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Absolutely not. Any inc file needs all the preceding incs in the set present for a restore to be possible.

However, if you make diffs, then you don't need the in-between diff files present. That's the diff betwen diffs and incs. Each inc only records changes only since the last inc. But diffs record changes since the full.

That makes sense. Thanks, I will have a look, how to serve customers requirements best.....