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Removing Selected Files or Folders from a Backup

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I have realized that before backing up my system volume, I had meant to remove some stuff... nothing too incriminating ;-) But ... is it possible to open the backup files and actually remove selected files and folders from the archice? I seem to remember attempting this and being unsuccessful.

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You can edit the backup TIB files, but, when you save your changes, you will create in fact an incremental backup, so you won't reduce the size of the original backup.

You can run a manual consolidation that will produce a new full backup that doesn't contain files that were removed in the incremental.

That should work! Make sure you validate your consolidated backup.