How do I delete files inside of a File Backup (not a disk image)?
How do I delete files inside of a File Backup (not a disk image)? I cant seem to find a way to delete specific files, only recover them.
Wow, that's really limiting. So I need to recreate the backup from scratch to have it not include a particular file in the backup? There's no other way to remove it from a backup?
You can change/edit the task, but once the backup file is created you can not modify the created backup file itself.
There have been some reports that in 2013 file based backups, editing the file/folder selection in an existing task that sometimes the new file selections do not "stick" when the task is re-saved.
Maybe I am going about this wrong.
I have a set of folders that aggregates a lot incoming files that must be backed up. Occasionally, there is a file that shouldn't be backed up. But because this whole process (aggregation and backing up) is automated, individual files that shouldn't be backed up are sometimes lost in the shuffle. (Right now I just run an automated folder backup archive process once every few hours.)
What is the best way to handle this situation if I cannot alter the backup itself? I remove the bad file from the folder to be archived and then I have to re-create the entire backup task? Is there a better way to do this? And if not, what is the easiest way to do this? I tried cloning settings but now I have a differently named .tib file (with a 1 or 2 in front of it) which will be very confusing for both myself and for others that might have to restore the backup. (And because I am doing an incremental backup, the backup actually fails unless I start it over from scratch. That's fine in my current case, but might not be in other circumstances.)
You can set up exclusions for using wildcards, but this is about it.
The files aren't all of the same type and extension so I don't think wildcards would work.
Is there a way to force a backup which is now set for incremental backups (with one full backup and continually incremental backups) to start over and begin from "version 1"? So that the backup starts with a full copy of the files in their current state and then begins to increment again in the future?
You can manually (or with a command line batch file) move the existing TIB files to another directory. Chain2gen is a tool that helps automate this.
Hi pat, thanks for sticking with me here.
The first thing I did was move the .tib files to another directory hoping that Acronis would automatically create an initial full backup and then start incrementing. Instead Acronis asked for my_backup782.tib (the 782nd incremented version, or whatever number) and failed when it couldn't find it, saying the archive was temporarily unavailable. Looks like it does a comparison with whatever exists already, and if something is expected to exist based on whatever internal counting is maintained, the backup creation process fails. (I tried and the recovery process also fails.)
Cloning settings and running the clone doesn't work either.
I am downloading chain2gen now and will check it out. It looks like it might work for me from what I read in the thread, but it seems to rely on some default behavior in Acronis (restarting from a full backup after moving the .tibs) which I have already tried.
From the thread:
"Assume you had an existing Acronis TI backup INCR chain.
If you were to MANUALLY move all the “.tib” files from the target folder to a new folder.
You have effectively made that set of files (chain) a backup generation.
The next time Acronis TI runs it will start a new chain. "
I have not moved ALL the .tibs - just the .tibs associated with a specific backup task (example: all of the my_backupXXX.tibs, but not all of the my_documentsXXX.tibs or core_filesXXX.tibs).
What Chain2Gen (C2G) does is this.
All backups for a given task must be directed to s folder named "set0"
On cue based on options or a desktop shortcut trigger, the set0 is renamed & recreated empty (folders rotated upward numerically & out)-- and when TrueImage sees an empty folder, it will trigger the start of a new chain beginning with a full backup.
Have you considered the use of a differential backup rather than incremental.
The diff begins with a full and then each subsequent diff is all changes since the full.
So if a single user source file or folder is deleted, the next diff would pick up the changes and be a current backup of all changes that has occurred since the full backup.
Thanks for the reply. Sorry my own is coming so late.
I don't really understand differential backups very well but my concern with doing a differential is that I backup once per day, and if I delete something on accident (or something happens) and the backup is made, I've lost my file permanently. So differential backup appears too risky to me. (please correct me if I am wrong).
Wow!!!
It should be in the software to be able to delete!!
William, this topic is almost 10 years old so unlikely that anyone is following it.
All Acronis backup archives are read-only files, they cannot be changed nor any items added or deleted from them! This is by design from Acronis and has been this way for as long as the application has been provided. Even when Acronis offered a method of making changes around 10 years back, the process just added a further file containing the changes - the original archive was never touched.
WILLIAM PERRELLI wrote:Wow!!!
It should be in the software to be able to delete!!
Hello William,
I've added your comment as a vote for the feature request TI-35834 Return mounting partitions in read/write mode, however there is almost no chance of implementing this request. We had a lot of issues reported because of this feature and decided to get rid of it in favor of the more stable archives.
Hi. I accidentally backed up a very large file (a single file of 2 terabytes!) to my backup set. It more than doubled my entire backup set for that given folder. I understand a file cannot be deleted from a given TIB archive. My question is if I can delete that entire TIB file and have Acronis re-run an incremental backup since the last time from BEFORE that enormous file was included.
For instance, my last backup before the huge file was included was xxx_inc_b1_s40_v1.tib. Then the huge file got included on s41. How can I delete s41 and have Acronis run an incremental backup again, starting from s40?
Thank you very much.
Gustavo Saito wrote:Hi. I accidentally backed up a very large file (a single file of 2 terabytes!) to my backup set. It more than doubled my entire backup set for that given folder. I understand a file cannot be deleted from a given TIB archive. My question is if I can delete that entire TIB file and have Acronis re-run an incremental backup since the last time from BEFORE that enormous file was included.
For instance, my last backup before the huge file was included was xxx_inc_b1_s40_v1.tib. Then the huge file got included on s41. How can I delete s41 and have Acronis run an incremental backup again, starting from s40?
Thank you very much.
Hello Gustavo!
You can delete the backups in the console ( always in the console, don't delete the backups manually because that may corrupt the entire chain ), but those recovery points will be lost. Please note the next backup will be executed according to your backup schedule in the backup plan, if there is a full backup scheduled a new full backup will be executed.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks. Would you be able to point me where in the interface of Acronis TI 2021 is the option to delete a given TIB file? I have looked everywhere and could not find it.
I understand that if I delete the last TIB in my backup set (xxx_inc_b1_s41_v1.tib), the new incremental backup job will resume from xxx_inc_b1_s40_v1.tib, correct?
Gustavo Saito wrote:Thanks. Would you be able to point me where in the interface of Acronis TI 2021 is the option to delete a given TIB file? I have looked everywhere and could not find it.
I understand that if I delete the last TIB in my backup set (xxx_inc_b1_s41_v1.tib), the new incremental backup job will resume from xxx_inc_b1_s40_v1.tib, correct?
Hello!
Please refer to the following KB in order to delete the backups: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2021/#13712.html
If you delete the latest recovery point the backup will resume in the previous one, yes.
Thanks in advance!