If a different tab is displayed, go to Backups tab:. Click Clean up:. After specifying the necessary cleanup parameters, click Clean up now. The previous procedure will clean up backup versions, created by one particular backup task. If you have many of them, consider a global cleanup that would run over all not password-protected backups under your Acronis account. Backups with password will have to be cleaned up one-by-one.
Encrypted backups will be excluded from the account cleanup. To delete a backup with all of its versions, settings and schedule, launch Acronis True Image, click the down arrow icon next to the backup to delete, and then click Delete. Then click Yes to confirm the operation. If you want to wipe out all backup versions, but preserve backup settings and schedule, delete the backup via Acronis Cloud web application. Note that as there would be no backup versions after that, the backup task would start uploading everything from scratch to the Cloud, consuming Internet traffic and time.
This can be done via a web browser from any device, even if Acronis True Image is not installed on it. Click Delete:. The backup will be gone from Acronis Cloud, but all the settings and schedule will remain in Acronis True Image software application.
Next time the backup task starts, it will start uploading the data, selected as backup source, to Acronis Cloud, from scratch. This limits the usage of this method of Acronis Cloud cleanup to a very specific cases, for example, when the backup size is relatively small, or when Acronis True Image software is not installed or not accessible. To avoid filling the entire Cloud Storage it is recommended to set up automatic Cloud cleanup in backup options so that old versions of the backup are deleted automatically according to the rules that you specify.
You can also select the Delete versions that are older than check box and enter a value that limits the maximum age of the older versions.
All other versions will be automatically deleted except the most recent versions. If you need more Cloud storage, see Acronis True Image: how to purchase more cloud storage.
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Free up space in the target location or select another location e. If you use Acronis True Image or clean up backup location as described in Acronis True Image and How to delete old backups. Move the backup chain to another location, e. Shrink archive size by setting up archive cleanup older backups in the chain will be deleted :.
Do not delete backup files from the location while the backup are listed in Acronis True Image. Retention rules allow you to limit the backup archive size and set the lifetime for backups. This way you can ensure that backups do not fill up all the available storage space.
Retention scheme depends on the backup scheme. Retention rules are effective if the archive contains more than one backup. The last backup in the archive will be kept even if a retention rule violation is detected. Retention rules cannot be applied when using simplified archive naming.
Instead you can use batch files for managing backup files. Note: last backup in archive will not be deleted even if it meets the retention rules conditions. If Consolidation operation is interrupted e. Select when to apply retention rules the default setting is Never. You can select one or several of the following options:. If there is not enough space to store a backup being created, the oldest backup will be deleted.
This setting allows to delete the last backup in the archive. Note that if the task fails after having deleted the last existing backup, neither the previous data nor the data was being backed up will be available for recovery. After you create the task, you can check it in the settings of your plan: the plan consists of four tasks - three backup tasks for backups of different type and a cleanup tasks for applying retention rules:. The retention rules logic assumes that the storage device capacity is much more than the average backup size and the maximum archive size does not come close to the physical storage capacity, but leaves a reasonable reserve e.
Due to this, exceeding the archive size that may occur between the cleanup task runs will not be critical for the business process. Symptoms Backup fails with error 'Disk is full' or 'Write error'. Cause Backup location is full or does not have enough space to store your backup. Solution Free up space in the target location or select another location e. Re-add the backup: click Add existing backup. Select backups in the new location.
