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Mesed up -- storage drive almost full

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Lost and confused! I installed ATI2013 in July 2013. Windows 7 64 bit. Set it up to do incremental backups. Left it alone. Didn't set up any back up schemes to delete old versions of backups. Now my storage drive is almost full. I obviously need to get rid of a bunch of these incremental back ups.

What's the best way to proceed? Should I just knock out all of the incremental backups, leaving the initial full back up from July? And then how to delete? I have read that the proper way to delete old backups is to do that through ATI. Where in ATI do I do this? Thanks. (

I have the backup schedule set for every 4 hours. Too frequent?)

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Here is the program location where the delete are to be initiated by the user.

http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/delete-backup-file.jpg

As incremental type backups must be kept in a continuous chain, the only deletes possible (and retain the possibility of restores) is to start the deletion with the NEWEST or most recent backup and begin the delete from newest backward to least new. If you delete any numbers in-between or only in the middle grouping, then all the newer incs will not be restorable. If storage space allows, certainly keep the full associated with this backup task. Never delete a full backup until absolutely necessary. If you need more space, consider adding more storage disks.

I would stop using the current backup task which created the excess and begin new again but with changes to your backup configuration.
Whether your backups are too frequent only you know your space storage limits. I don't know that they are too frequent but you do need to set the backup scheme so you have full type backup more frequently so you avoid the long chain of incremental backups before a new full is created. Avoid using the standard incrmental backup type as it has no cleanup. Instead, use the Custom/Incremental as refenced as 11-Inc below.

Review link #2 below and examine in detail, the illustration 11-Inc and be sure and read all the fine print associated with the 11-Inc example.
You can save the custom backup scheme with a custom name and it will be reusable for future schemes.