How to Delete Backups in Acronis True Image 11?

I know I can manually delete them via Windows Explorer, of course, but cannot find anywhere in the product to do it. Anyone see it?

 

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Please notice that Acronis True Image does not have specific tools for backup deletion.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image 10.0 Home in the respective User's Guide.

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Marat Setdikov

 

Thank you for your reply.

So the only ways to manage them is manually, or via the Backup Location Rules?

You might also update the standard response text to reflect the correct version. I am running V11, not V10.

 

Well , I deleted one by rightclicking it & going to delete. However it says,"You can't delete this but do you want to try it anyway "; so I did it & it worked (for me anyway). Good luck!

 

I find it astonishing that one has to resort to Windows Explorer to delete backups in ATI. Would you please explain the rationale behind that?

JPC

 

It never occured to me to delete backups from within the ATI gui when I can just delete them like regular files in windows.

Otoh, you can set up things so you have automatic deletion after user-set file limits are reached -- add to that scheduled tasks and that's badsically set it and forget it backups.

 

Having ATI 11 managing deletion of backups makes a lot of sense. It could prevent you from deleting an incremental from the middle of a set, or take care of deleting the subsequent incrementals from a set when you do, or automatically delete the associated incrementals and differentials when you delete the base image.