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Cleaning out The list of backups on the left side of the "dashboard" without deleting backups

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I just updated to ATI 2016 from 2015. 

When I installed 2015, a tech helped me to remove all but the current active backup (I image my disk drives every night). I do have some stored backups of older computers on the external drive where my active backup is stored. I want to eliminate all but the current active backup from the list on the list on the left side of that screen. But I don't want them erased. I also want only the name of the last file in the chain to show up, (i'm up to version 47, s5, and it will be soon (tonight ) 48 in the incremental chain. 

Can someone please tell me how to remove these file names from the list without deleting the backups? 

I am also assuming I have to re do the schedule with the new program, correct? 

Thank you. Susan Daum

 

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Hi Susan,

Yes and yes.

When you click the dropdown carrot on the backup name and press delete, you will get 2 options.  Choose the bottom one to only delete the settings. This will remove the task from the Acronis console, but leave the backup files in place.  If you delete all tasks this way, you can then "add existing backup" and point it to the last version of the incremental in your backup scheme and I believe (not 100% sure) it will show up in the task as the name you want.  Alternatively, you can rename your backup task anytime you want.. however, it will cause a new full to run and continue from there with the new name.

Personally, I would not rely on incrementals forever.  I'm not sure how often you run incrementals, but if you did one hourly, I'd say that you could do 23 and then do a new full and 23 more incrementals for daily backups.  If you're doing incrementals every day (or longer) and your going on your 48th day of incrementals, you're playing with fire.  Yes, Acronis offers this feature and yes, it "should" work.  However, incrementals are the most sensitive of backups since the last version you want to recover from relies on every version before it and there is more chance of one of those to be bad and prevent the ones behind it from working.

If you want to keep your backup scheme, that's up to you.  However, you may want to at least take a full backup every now and then with the offline recovery media to be on the safe side.  Also, if you do this, just put it in it's own folder to keep things neat and orderly - especially if you give it the same backup name as something else you have stored elsehwere on one of your drives.  I usually add the date in the name on myh offline backups to avoid using the exact same name.  

 

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