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Best way to delete back up files TI home 2011

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Hi All
Just wanted to know the best way to delete old back up files, i had about 20 backup files for my emails and decided to get rid of a few, i opened up TI and then clicked on the browse & recover button, naviagted my way to the backup folder and then right clicked on the individual files and selected delete, the first one seemed to delete ok but when trying a few other acronis locked up and i had to end the program by force!

I have seen that some people say that you should move the back up files to another location and then delete them from there, when they talk about another location can it be a differnet place on the same external hard drive or do they mean a completely different drive?

Any help would be great, i know you can turn on auto cleanup but i havent so im looking for the correct way of manually deleting them.

Thanks

Pete

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Pete,

Normally, you should always delete backup versions from within ATI. That said, the delete function have had issues with prior builds of 2011, so make sure you have the latest build. I have personally testing deleting disk and partition backups and file backups, but not email backups.

Even with the latest build, you won't be able to validate a chain of differential backups where you have deleted intermediary differential backups. This doesn't mean that the backup chain is corrupted necessarily, but the failed validation doesn't build confidence.

If you delete entire chains, you can manually delete them from windows explorer. Be aware that the chain(s) will still show in ATI, because ATI is trying to remember each archive independently of the OS file system information. This problem won't interfere with the backup continuation.

To delete entire backup tasks, you can move any existing TIB file you want to preserve to any directory you want, and then delete the backup task. If you move the TIB files to a directory on another disk, it will be taking more time, since the OS has to copy the file, then delete it on the source.

If you delete a backup task after having moved its TIB files, ATI will complain and potentially harmlessly crash.