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You can, but it's preferrable if you use "Browse recovery points." That, or you can delete your previous recovery set and set up a new backup.
Are you referring to Tools>Run Recovery Point Browser? I do not see a way to delete recovery points in there.
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Apologies. Try the following:
On the Tools page, click Manage Backup Destination.
Select the recovery point set that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
Do one of the following:
To automatically delete all but the first and last recovery point in the set, click Automatic.
To manually select which recovery points in the set to delete, click Manual, and then select the recovery points you want to delete.
To delete all the recovery points in the set you selected, click Delete all recovery points in the set.
OK thanks.
I see it gives the option to manually select which incremental points to delete. But it seems if you delete an incremental point from the middle of a set, all the points after it, which depend on the data in that incremental point, will be useless. Am I incorrect about that?
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No it would not. That's not how incrementals work.
Let's say we have a base with the following data points and incrementals:
Base - A B C D E F
Inc1 - A1 C1
Inc2 - B1 D1 E1
Inc3 - A2 B2
Inc4 - C2 D2 F2
Inc5 - A3 E2
Let's say you delete Incremental 3. All you lose is data points A2 and B2. Make sense?
OK I see what you mean. (I'm assuming that in your example A is a file, and A1 and A2 are newer versions of it, correct?)
But in using this tool to delete images, it does not show all my images.
I had made 3 base images, Base1, Base2 and Base3. I then restored Base1, and then created a new base, Base4.
When I use Manage Backup Destination to try to delete images, it now shows Base1 and Base4, does not show Base2 and Base3. The dropdown selector only allows me to select a different drive to look at, I cannot select different folders within that drive, to see the images stored in them.
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Correct. It could be a file or groups of files or sectors, etc.
Did you previously delete any of your base images? Are they stored in a location that might not be connected right now?
I have not deleted any base images.
All my images are stored on my D: drive. There is a folder called Norton Backups, and the base images are each in separate folders within Norton Backups-base1, base2, base3, base4. It only sees base1 which I restored, and the new one, base4.
What happens when you try to select one of the other base images? Do you get an error?
Also, trying navigating through the following ways to see if it makes a difference (there are multiple ways of deleting recovery points):
Tools | Manage Backup Destination – just select and delete the recovery points you don’t want
Advanced | Manage Backup Destination
Advanced | Backup History | Right Click on a backup | Manage Backup Destination then select and delete
None of those 3 methods allow me to see the other backups, so selecting or deleting them is not possible.
I assume that the only way Ghost knows about the backups that have been created is because it has some kind of history file on the C: drive. When I restore the C: drive, that history is lost, so how can Ghost know about images that were created after the date that I have just restored the computer to?
Actually the index file is located on the backup destination. Since it's not showing those other bases, you can delete them manually through Windows explorer.
OK thanks