Delete backups and start over
I cannot find the screen to delete backups. Windows 7 Pro-32bit. The HELP file is very UN-helpful.
Top line: WDC WD5000.. Last backup Next Backup Total size
Bottom: A + V Options Recover disks Recover files Backup now
Where do I go from there?
The funny thing about this is that it never made any sense for me to use one of the options offered. The only thing I want to do sometimes is to delete some or all existing versions of a backup task but to keep the task and its settings to start over with a new backup chain.
For example when you have a backup of a whole hard drive scheduled with incremental backups and you make some significant changes to the data or structure of this drive (creating or resizing partitions etc.), so that it doesn't make sense to continue the chain with an incremental backup. Then I want to remove all existing versions from this backup task and let it create a new full backup without having to create a new task (with same settings).
Hi
I have a similar problem in that I can't figure out how to use the interface and options logically. Acronis a couple of years back seemed simpler.
I created the 1st backup as an incremental scheme. My laptop is called ABC. The file says ABC base_full_b1_s1_v1.tib as it's the first in the set. I updated my laptop. Now I want to keep that and create a new backup set and want the future incrementals to be in this so I named it DEF. So I expected a new set to start as DEF base_full_b1_s1_v1. But it's getting created as an incremental to ABC as it has filename DEF base_inc_b1_s2_v1.tib and as far as I understand the first in a chain should show full and version s1 for the first version but this has inc and s2 in its filename.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA
ziton,
create two new tasks and use my GH-12 as an example.
Each task should have a different (not used before) and each task should point to its own storage folder or sub-folder.
Here are a couple links of interest
Thanks - that helps a lot. I kept looking at the Options (logically) and not finding anything that applied. The subtle "down arrows" were a little too subtle.
Thanks GroverH. That's what I needed to understand. I think the older interfaces were far simpler to use. Pick an old name from the folder and it created an incremental and give a new name and it created a full. This 'better' interface with the left panel is just too simplistic looking to make things prettier and 'seem easier' but it's just a bad UI, in my opinion.
I also found under W10, 64b, that when creating an archive to an external disk, the disk is not let go after you close the Acronis window as Windows won't let you eject the disk safely -- says still in use. There must be other Acronis tasks grabbing it or it's not letting if go properly it seems (latest version). Since I reboot, run Acronis to back up and exit it, and then try to eject the disk, that's what I see. Reboot and not using Acronis causes no issues. Do you see such behaviour? It's a fresh W10 install so no other stuff on it.
TIA
Hello ziton,
I've discussed your scenario with our development team and my colleagues would ask you to send us Acronis system report as feedback from your machine, so that we could investigate this issue.
Thank you in advance for your input!