How to delete old base of incremental backup point if you can't see it in SSR
I was making a backup of all drives before updating to the most recent version. I am running SSR2013 R2.
I have a backup job set to incremental for one particular drive. I made a backup in June 2016. Since I have other backup strategies on this particular drive I did not update it for quite a while.
I just ran that incremental backup job and since it is now 2017, I know that SSR creates an entirely new backup and does not make it incremental to the one from June. And based on the file sizes, that is what happend.
So I have a backup from June 2016 that is 850GB and one from April 2017 that is 1TB.
They are labeled D_Drive001 and D_Drive 002. I can of course see both V2I files on my NAS in the same directory.
However since the one from April 2017 (D_Drive002) is really not incremental (it is a new "base" I believe) I want to delete that one from June 2016. However when I go into Advanced and right click on manage destinations I only see that one recovery point I just made today. So I assume the old base is buried in there somewhere?
Now I can right click and there is a clean up and delete option but I certainly want to check before I run that.
Also, I have not had good luck with SSR properly deleting large backups on the NAS when trying to delete from SSR. In the past I have had to delete the file manualy on the NAS.
So bottom line, how do I keep the backup I made today and delete the old one? And verify my assumption that the new one is a new base and not incremental.
Thanks,
BJB