Deleting specific version changes in 2016 True Image
Just upgraded (or down) from 2014.. Where did the option to delete specfic version chains go? 2014 version had the ability (gear button->recover ) to select and delete specific version chains to free up space. What do I do if the backup disk is full now? I don't want to delete all good backups. Somehow the automatic cleanup isn't working the way it is supposed to either it seems.
Thanks Pat
Not what I had hoped for. I don't understand why the product is going backwards w.r.t to this. It was cumbersome before, but it solved a lot of problems (overflowing disk), now its basically broken and if my auto clean up doesn't create enough space I'll wind up having to delete and recreate the backup task.
Can you clarify what the "updated counting process" means. Does that mean if I have set to 3, but then change it the clean up rule, the previous backups will stick around until I've exceeded 3 again?
Thanks again
Axel
I miss the old feature of pointing to a backup and deleting too, but think I understand why as the catalog files would get corrupted overtime with all of the manual deletions. I had more trouble with corrupted backups this way and would just start from scratch to make sure my full system images were really recoverable.
The goods news though, in 2016, you can use version chains to automatically clean up older backups and it's pretty reliable. You can't pick and choose to delete invidivual incrementals this way, but at least you can set up a scheme that will retain backups for data as long as necessary and then have Acronis groom out older chains to keep your disk from filling up.
At home, I do one full backup, followed by 4 weekly incremental backups for my OS (1 version chain which is basically 5 weeks). I then have automatic cleanup turned on and set to keep no more than 1 version chain. Essentially, this allows me to really keep about 9 weeks (just over 2 months) of backups for the OS, and never less than 5 (more than 1 month since these are weekly snapshots). Once it reaches the end of the second version chain, it cleans up leaving the 5 previous backups but only after the next full backup has completed. Then I get 4 more weekly incremental backups and the process repeats.
Version chain 1: Full + Week 1 + Week 2 + Week 3 + Week 4
Version chain 1 doesn't get deleted until version chain 2 gets completed (which happens when version 3 starts)
As a supplement for my important files, I have a separte daily backup for just the data in my user profile. I do a single full backup, followed by 14 daily incremental backups and keep 2 version chains (essentially 1 month).
Everyone will have their own requirements for how often they want to do full system images and retain them, but this has worked well for me, especially since I'm getting more frequent user data backups, but can resort to either to restore files from when needed.