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drsusan
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - February 06 2015 : 23:53:03
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I put my first backup image on one external drive and had to get a new external drive because the first was full. I then backed up two full images (plus incrementals) to the second device. I am getting ready to do another full image but do not know how Reflect will handle the delete (I have 3 full images as my maximum) since the first image is on another drive. Is there some way to manually delete the first image? If not, how will Reflect handle this situation?
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et_and_family
Advanced Member
United Kingdom
500 Posts |
Posted - February 07 2015 : 10:12:21
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Hi
When Macrium Reflect runs Disk Space Management the purge will take place in the folder of the drive which is attached and into which the new full backup will be placed. The count of the number of backup sets will be those in this folder, it will not take into account any full backups in a different drive whether connected or not.
You can manually delete a backup set at any time. A backup set is a full backup and any incrementals or differentials with the same image ID. Do not delete old incrementals in a backup set as later incrementals in the same backup set will become useless, the only exception is if the later incrementals follow a Differential the incrementals before the Differentials may be deleted.
Hope this clarifies
Regards
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drsusan
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - February 07 2015 : 19:28:12
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Thank you. That is very helpful.
After manually deleting the full backup plus associate incrementals, would I then "delete" the backup definition file (i.e., right-click, delete)?
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Merlin
Advanced Member
852 Posts |
Posted - February 07 2015 : 20:29:34
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If the backup definition has the information of the scheduled backups you want, you can keep it as long as it has the type of backup (full, incremental, etc), what you want backed up, and the folder where the backup is going to be stored.
If you are no longer going to use that definition and will create new ones, you can delete it. |
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mikeyww
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - September 05 2015 : 12:11:56
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Identifying the set of backup files that go together (e.g., a full backup plus its corresponding incremental backups) is currently difficult. It would be useful if Reflect had a tool or feature to ease the identification and deletion of these sets of files.
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Drac144
Advanced Member
USA
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Posted - September 05 2015 : 21:45:24
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If you use the standard Reflect backup naming it is very easy to find all files in a fileset. The base file name is the same for all. This base name is followed by: NN-nn.xxx Where NN is 00 for the full backups and O1, O2, etc for each incremental or differential added. The nn is the file number in the set and differs from NN when file splitting is used.
09D9205CE9BCEC5E-01-12 would be the first incremental (-01) and the 12th file in the set (because file splitting was used and the full backup required 12 files (00 to 11).
So in this example all files having a name starting with "09D9205CE9BCEC5E" are part of the same backup set and can be deleted together.
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mikeyww
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - September 06 2015 : 12:43:19
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