How do I delete Individual Backups with TIH 2011?
I backup my data files every night and use the @date@ function (why is the date format not compatible with TIH 2010??)
The backups are not listed individually in My backups. My Backups shows 'Data' when in fact there is Data_20110806; Data_20110807; Data_20110808 etc. ( I have to add the _ to the file name is TIH does not insert one).
I can find no way in TIH to delete just one file. If I use the delete option, it deletes them all if I let it. That is crazy. How do you delete just one?
I am using non-stop backup and starting to run out of disk space for the backup. In the backup location there are a whole lot of data files with names like cdp666.data.
Can I simply delete the old ones to create more space or will this in some way compromise the backup?
You cannot delete manually NSB files. Instead, use ATi to delete versions of files prior to a specific date.
I tried using ATi to delete previous backups. The interface of ATi 11 does not make it easy to find anything (ATi 10 was fine). I found that under the specific backup there was an Operations link and then Clean Up. That produced a dialogue box to delete old versions but I left that open for over an hour and it still did not display any old versions to delete (or offer any actions).
I can manually delete NSB files. In my backup location, under the Time Explorer Storage folder, there is a folder with a long alphanumeric name. This has 8,435 files in it, totalling 8TB. 8,332 of these files are DATA files (.data extension), usually 1GB each. I can delete these files. I even tried it. The question is "Is there any reason not to?".
In this directory there is also the main backup file with 10 subsidiary backup files underneath it. I cannot delete these. The oldest of these is May 17, whereas the DATA files continue up to the present. There might therefore be a seperate question of whether I can delete DATA files (1) before May 17 and (2) after May 17 with no untoward consequences.
If you delete any file of the NSB backup, this will corrupt it. So either you delete all the files, and your NSB is gone, or none.
If you are not sure, feel free to post a screenshot of the directory containing the files you want to delete to avoid any confusion