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Disk cleanup not working

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I've got the disk cleanup to make available space on my backup drive but the backup just keeps adding and adding until the disk is full.
Any suggestions?

Win 7 x64, backup drive 1.5 TB, Source about 250GB , Internal disk to disk backup.
Full disk backup with incrementals.

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When you created the backup task, did you set a limit (number of backups, age of backups, or total size of backups) under "cleanup rules"? If you don't do that, if there's no limit, then naturally True Image will keep creating backups until you run out of disk space.

You should not allow an incremental chain to become too long. An incremental restore depends upon every incremental in the chain being valid, including the original full. It's better to limit each chain to just a few incrementals, followed by a fresh full backup to start a new chain.

I suggest that you create a brand new backup task, backing up to a new folder, with your desired options:

Read Grover's How to Backup From Within Windows: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705