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I'm using Acronis Home 2009. I create archive backups to an external hard drive. I have some I would like to delete. What is the best way to do this? Just delete it or use Acronis to delete it? I couldn't find any where in Acronis for deleting a backup.

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The method advocated by Acronis is to open the Recovery Module and use it to delete or copy or move the archives.

Remember backups are done in "sets" .

If using a combination of Full and Incremental backups, You need the base full backup plus all Incremental backups from the beginning up to point of recent origin.
In other words, if you have a full and 25 incrementals. If it is #24 incremental which is important to you, you must also keep all those from 2-23 because each builds upon the preceding.

If using a combination of full and differential backups, then you need to keep the full (base) but you can delete any of unwanted differentials.

You can read more about it via item 7H inside my signature index below.