Cleanup of prior incremental backups after automatic new restore point
Greetings, I am still on version 16 and plan to upgrade soon. I have automatic weekly backups running for a drive C, and drive D to my NAS. I know based on some settings and the phase of the moon, (just kidding here) SSR creates a full new image (base I think it is called?). I would have thought this would have happened the first week of January because I thought it was set to only do one once a year? However last night SSR apparently created a new, full image/restore point as it consumed 2TB of my NAS! Shouldn't DDR automatically delete the old initial restore point base when it does this? Or at least some of the incrementals since that old base from (I guess) last year? Apparently it does not because if it did, my total useage of my NAS would not have increased that much. I know last time I tried to clean up old restore points it was a bit scary and cumbersome. I know you can see various peices of info on them on that one screen where it shows the last backup by drive and then below shows info on the various restore points. How can I: 1) Make sure I keep my most recent "base" restore point. 2) Recover enough incrementals since the last base to re-capture some of my storage. I do not need 52 weeks of restore points. 3) I assume I cannot just go back to my last base and delete that because then all of the intervening incrementals are now useless, correct? Or do I need to do just that.....delete the old base and all incrementals through last week? And I know it is best to do this from within the software as if I do it directly on the NAS file management, SSR loses its history. 4)What are the best settings for my backup job so it does this in the future automatically? I remember going through this with my old NAS and and an older SSR version but we assumed back then it was a network glitch or something that made it not delete old versions. Apparently not. Also, hopefully the recent patches for version 18 have solved some of the issues I saw reported. I want to upgrade to that when I upgrade to the latest Windows 10 build. Thanks for some quick help. I need to open up some space on that NAS quickly. BJB