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Safe to delete Incremental files ?

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:43 pm
by tas3086
I backuo incrementally many partitions daily. Many of the partitions logs show that 0 sectors were backed up. I can easily change my scripts to delete today's increment .tbs, .#_# and .#0 files if the sector count is 0.. This would save me a lot of disk space if it doesn't cause any restore problems. Do you see any potential problems with doing this.

Re: Safe to delete Incremental files ?

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:22 pm
by TeraByte Support

As long as you don't delete it from the middle of a chain of items.

Also, if you use the save last backup name file path option you can't
use it since you would have deleted it.


On 4/14/2020 10:43 AM, tas3086 wrote:
> I backuo incrementally many partitions daily. Many of the partitions logs show that 0 sectors were backed up. I can easily change my scripts to delete today's increment .tbs, .#_# and .#0 files if the sector count is 0.. This would save me a lot of disk space if it doesn't cause any restore problems. Do you see any potential problems with doing this.
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Re: Safe to delete Incremental files ?

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2020 9:31 pm
by Bob Coleman
I haven't thoroughly followed what's being done here, so I don't know if this helps or not, but note that the /del option on the imagew command creating a changes only backup will delete the hash files associated with the base file.