Hello,
I have been using Ghost 15 to automatically backup My Computer as well as my Files & Folders. I have approximately 400GB on a 2TB drive on my primary. I am backing up to an identical 2TB drive but it appears that Norton has run out of space on the backup with all of the versions and I cannot perform another backup (180GB remaining). I thought it would automatically delete the oldest versions to maintain disk space.
I have already tried deleting recovery points as I had seen in another thread but no space has been freed. I have approximately 300GB in music files that I can delete to free up space but do not want to search for and delete each individual file using the Recover My Files tool.
Any help in freeing up space and keeping this from occurring again would be very helpful. Thanks in advance!
Ghost doesn't automatically delete backups to free up space unless you specifically request it and set the amount of space allowed for the backups. Going forward, I'd recommend you look into some of the following options for your backup scheme.
1. Consider setting the backup to start a new set (ie. a new full base image) every so often - say weekly or monthly. This way the system can purge entire old sets without having to worry about consolidating long strings of incremental backups. You can then run an incremental backup daily. I'd suggest setting your scheme so that you never have more than about 20-30 incrememntals for any given set. Just a rule of thumb for me - ymmv.
2. In the destination management, set Ghost to automatically consolidate / delete backup sets to maintain a maximum backup size you specify. Since a backup set seems to take about 400GB in your case and you also have about 300 GB of other files on your 2 TB drive, I'd suggest setting the limit to about 1.2 GB. This way, Ghost will delete an old set if necessary before starting a new backup set and you should always have enough room on the detination drive.
There's also an option when setting up a backup to retain only a certain number of old sets. This is good in terms of enforcing retention policy, but you still need the other option above in order to ensure that disk space is not exceeded.
Hope this helps!