How to delete individual archives?

In TI 11, when I go to Manage Backup Locations and Archives > Explore Backup Location, I see a list of all of the backups that have been created.

Under the heading "Backup Archives" is the statement "View, restore or delete selected archives."

If I click on an individual "archive" the task pane has links to "Show backup content" (i.e., view), "Restore backup archive" (i.e., restore), and "Validate backup archive." There seems to be no way to delete a selected archive.

Am I missing something? If, with TI closed, I manually delete a file from my Backup Location will I confuse TI or will it simply read the contents of the Backup Location next time and act accordingly?

 

Just a wild guess since I don't delete my backups that way, try r-clicking on the archive and see if you get the Delete feature.

 

Nope, just get "Arrange icons by...", "Choose columns", and "Refresh."

If you don't delete your backups "that way", how do you delete them?

I only ask because I had, in the same Archive Location, some good full disk backups and some questionable diff file backups. I wanted to delete all of the file backups and start over without losing the disk images.

 

"I wanted to delete all of the file backups and start over without losing the disk images."

I'm confused.

 

I think some of the backups are image (My Computer) type backups and some are files & folders (My Data) type backups. Both were saved into the same Backup Location.

 

Yes, exactly.

Eventually, the Backup Location will clean itself out as old files are deleted based on my rule limiting the size of the Backup Location. I was just asking if I could speed up that process by manually deleting the "My Data" type backups manually without deleting the entire Backup Location.

 

Hello all,

Thank you for using Acronis True Image

SmallStep,

You are able to delete the archives manually without deleting the entire Backup Location, this will not influence the program functionality.

I would recommend you to create a new Backup Location to place your data archives to, i.e. one Backup Location should correspond to one backup task.

Thank you.

--
Oleg Lee

 

Thanks. That's exactly what I did.

 

I use Windows Explorer and delete them just like any other file.

 

I had exactly the same issue and found out the answer the hard way:

Do NOT go into Management Tools->Manage Backup Locations and Archives.

Instead go into "Explore Archive" under Operations buttonin top row. Then when you select the archive you want to delete you will see a red "X" above the window to click on.

 

Thanks.

I suspect that doing it as you describe is the same as using Windows Explorer ... but one never knows what internal database might be getting updated behind the scenes. If I have to deal with this issue again, I'll be more comfortable operating through the Acronis UI than doing an end run with Windows Explorer.

I wonder if the UI has been fixed (or made more logical) in TI 2009.

 

I'll jump in here as maybe I have the same or a similar problem.

I have set my task to be a full drive back up every night. I wish to keep 3 nights worth so have been changing the name every morning of each tib file to add the date then copying it to another drive as an added backup.

I now have 18 days of full tibs and am trying to delete the older ones in XP Explorer as I have done before, but get a panel that the files is in use. As far as I can see TI is not in use and I assume that would be the only thing happening to do with the file.

How can I turn TI fully off, if it is TI that is stopping me deleteing these files or is their another answer.

Many thanks and good luck with your own problems.

oz

 

The 'in use' message is sometimes spurious - it might be that you don't have the right permissions. Try logging in as Administrator in Safe Mode, and changing the permissions if necessary.