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Delete a single or
multiple backups
Select one of the backups you want to delete, then click Delete.
The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion (p. 167) window that
has check boxes for each archive and each backup. Review the selection and correct
if need be (select the check boxes for the desired backups), then confirm the
deletion.
Delete all archives and
backups in the vault
Please be aware that if filters have been applied to the vaults list, you see only a part
of the vault content. Be sure that the vault does not contain archives you need to
retain before starting the operation.
Click Delete all.
The program duplicates your selection in the Backups deletion (p. 167) window that
has check boxes for each archive and each backup. Review the selection and correct
if need be, then confirm the deletion.
8.4.3 Converting a backup to full
When the chain of incremental backups in an archive becomes long, conversion of an incremental
backup to a full one increases the reliability of your archive. You may also want to convert a
differential backup if there are incremental backups that depend on it.
During the conversion, the selected incremental or differential backup is replaced with a full backup
for the same point in time. The previous backups in the chain are not changed. All subsequent
incremental and differential backups up to the nearest full backup are also updated. The new backup
versions are created first and only after that are the old ones deleted. Therefore, the location must
have enough space to temporarily store both the old and the new versions.
Example
You have the following backup chain in your archive:
F1 I2 I3 I4 D5 I6 I7 I8 F9 I10 I11 D12 F13
Here F means full backup, I -incremental, D - differential.
You convert to full the I4 backup. The I4, D5, I6, I7, I8 backups will be updated, while I10 I11 D12 will
remain unchanged, because they depend on F9.
Tips on usage
Conversion does not create a copy of a backup. To obtain a self-sufficient copy of the backup on a
flash drive or removable media, use the export (p. 156) operation.
When you mount an image (p. 161) in the read/write mode, the software creates an incremental
backup containing the changes you make to the backup content. The subsequent backups do not
contain these changes. Naturally, if you convert any of the subsequent backups to full, none of these
changes will appear in the resulting full backup.
Limitations
Conversion is not allowed for the following backups:
 Backups stored on tapes, CD/DVD, or in Acronis Cloud Storage.
 Backups that have simplified names (p. 54).
 Backups of Microsoft Exchange Server data.