True Image - delete back up files without deleting backup settings
How do i delete backup files in True Image while keeping the backup settings - there appears only to be 2 options - delete the backup settings/keep backup files or delete backup settings and files.
I suggest you find your backup in Explorer and right click it. A drop down list with various options appears. Click on delete and away it goes, at least that is what should happen. I have not tested this yet as I want my secure zone to start re-cycling backups without any manual intervention and it is not yet filled up.
Deleting in explorer is not the solution, as deleting files outside of Acronis does not work - Acronis simply sees the files as missing and asks to locate or remove the file from the back history. If I select remove from the list, it asks for every individual file in the backup set and since I have my backups split into 2GB files, that hundreds of files to go through for my 2TB drive. It seems like a pretty simple, straight forward function and I'm at a loss to understand why it's not an option. There are several reasons why someone would need to delete the backups and start from scratch, but would want to save their settings.
As user Berti has indicated, you can use the edit task settings and create a copy of your task via the "clone" settings.
This creates an identical copy of the task but with (1) as beginning part of the name.
Before using the copy, you can edit the settings and change any of its settings including its name.
This enables you to start over using the same settings except for the diffrerence is task name which should be maintained or use a different name as you should not use the exact same name over.
To delete the tasks, user Xpilot offered a solution which works but when deletion completed, if you want to reuse the task, run validation and respond "ignore" to each of the error prompts.
Or, you can use the Acronis solution which is
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/index.html#1…
Thank you all. The clone settings options work.
Slightly different but an issue relating to TIH 2015 and backup deletion.
I use TIH 2011 on one PC and TIH 2015 on a second PC (both are single licence).
No prob with TIH 2011. The user GUI is excellent and deletion of an image is very simple to do. The GUI for TIH 2015 is not as simple as that for TIH 2011 however.
I was trying to delete a backup/image made using TIH 2015 and could not see where it would enable me to do this. As I had only limited space on an external backup disk drive I decided to delete the backup via the Windows (file/folder) Explorer. Whilst I managed to do that ok TIH 2015 doesn't like what I have done - I think that it stores "status" somewhere in its system (perhaps in a Registry Setting ?) and it still thinks that the backup/image exists even though I actually erased it from the external backup disk. See the top left corner of the attached screenshot where a "red dot" is displayed. TIH 2015 also occasionally flags up an error message though it was only momentarily displayed (and I don't know where Acronis stores its error log).
I logged into my Acronis a/c and tried to repair (repair and uninstall were the options offered) TIH 2015 and it might have succeeded but unlikely as the red dot error is still showing. Is there a simple way of altering something within TIH 2015 to reset the errror flag. I admit that this is only an "irritation factor" as I have actually successfully used TIH 2015 today to make an image of the required partitions on the PC main HDD. Any ideas ?
I am going to have to admit that I have now solved the problem that I posted above !! Basically, log into your Acronis a/c, select the version of Acronis TIH that you are dealing with (in my case I have both 2011 and 2015 but this issue applies to 2015 only), then simply select uninstall - you have to answer a simple questionnaire (why do you want to uninstall ... in my case corrupted TIH database requiring Temporary uninstall) and then that's it - you have uninstalled. Then select TIH 2015 and start a fresh install (you will need the serial number of the Acronis product that you are reinstalling - it is given on a label that is stuck to the "Quick Start Card" that came with the boxed CDROM). And I was very relieved to see that when I reached the opening screen of Acronis 2015 the little "red dot" had disappeared from the "Backup" tab. The lesson from this experience is do NOT use Windows Explorer to delete a Backup - ONLY delete a backup from within TIH. I hope that my experience might help others.