User`s guide

14.4 Removing backup archives

You may want to remove backups and backup archives you no longer need. Because Acronis True

Image OEM Quick Backup stores information on the backup archives in a metadata information

database, deleting unneeded archive files using Windows Explorer will not delete information about

these archives from the database and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will consider that they

still exist. This will result in errors when the program tries to perform operations on the backups that

no longer exist. So you must only remove obsolete backups and backup archives using the tool

provided by Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup. To remove the entire backup archive, select it

and click Remove on the toolbar or right-click on the full backup of the backup archive and choose

Remove in the shortcut menu. To remove an incremental backup, select it and click Remove on the

toolbar or right-click on the selected backup and choose Remove in the shortcut menu. In this case

all other successive incremental backups created later than the selected incremental backup will also

be deleted. The following screen appears:

If you click Delete, the program will remove the backup archive from its metadata information

database as well as from the hard disk.

14.5 Moving backup archives

Now Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup allows you to move backup archives to another location.

This may come in handy if you want to free space for a new backup, but want to keep an earlier

backup archive at another location, for example, a network share. Another possible scenario - you

want to recover a disk used for keeping your archives. As the program cannot recover if the backup

archive is on the same disk you are going to recover, you need to move the archive to another hard

disk.

1. Select the archive for moving after clicking Recovery on the sidebar.

2. To move the archive, select it on the Data recovery and backup management screen. If the

archive consists of several backups, you can select any of them because Acronis True Image OEM

Quick Backup always moves the entire archive.

3. After making your selection, right-click and choose Move in the shortcut menu.

4. When moving is complete, the path to the archive will change in the Path column of the Data

recovery and backup management screen.