ATI 2015 How to delete an individual backup file

I'm using ATI 2015 with build 6613. I created a new backup called ASUS Full Backup V3 because there were changes I wanted to make to a backup called ASUS Full Backup V2. I'm not ready to delete ASUS Full Backup V2 and all of its backup files, but I need to make space on my external hard drive for the next ASUS Full Backup V3 backup file. I was looking for a way to delete individual backup files from Backup V2 and haven't found anything. I know using file explorer to delete the files will cause problems with ATI's metadata. Is there a way to do this or do I just have to delete Backup V2 and all of the backup files?
Gary


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Hi Steve,
Because I know the type of backup I forgot that anyone else won't know if they were full, incremental, or differential backups. These are full backup files. I would think manually deleting one and then running a validation would reconcile the database information. I'll wait for a reply before proceeding.
Gary
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Gary, with full backups life is much simpler and you should be able to do as stated to manually delete unwanted ones and then do a validation.
The recommended method of cleaning up backup files is to use the auto-cleanup rules where you can configure how many backup versions to keep or how long to keep backups.
The key to auto-cleanup is to recognise that old backups will not be removed until the next one is successfully created, so you need to have sufficient space to store x+1 where x is the number to keep.
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Steve,
The manual delete and valiadtion worked. I do use the auto-cleanup rules for my backups. In this case, I had created a new backup V3 and no longer wanted to run V2. I guess I should have cloned V2 to create V3 and made my changes to V3. I believe that would have allowed me to continue using the backup file names from V2 and the V2 auto-cleanup rules. Instead I had two separate sets of backups on the same hard drive, which caused this question.
Thanks for all of your help and quick replies.
Gary
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