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Brian Quote:I'd be surprised if the backups were deleted...
Actually, I think the Ghost 9 User Guide is being very specific and literal....any backups that are in the *History* and are still on the media that the *Backup History* is monitoring, and that are older than the most recent *full backup*, will probably be deleted!
Goober has quoted the User Guide on page 20:
Quote:Use Clean Backup History to delete the log file entries
and backup images for Norton Ghost events prior to the
last full backup you made (or the last base image you
made with incrementals).
! When you use Clean Backup History, be aware that all
backup history entries and associated backup image files
prior to the last backup are deleted.
I would expect everything being monitored by the Backup History prior to the most recent full backup, or base image with incrementals would be deleted. I do not use Ghost 9, but I think the intent of the wording is precise enough that I would believe it!
Quote:...but move them to another folder before proceeding
Assuming you do not necessarily want to loose those backups, then I would suggest, rather than *moving* the images, make
copies elsewhere other than where Ghost 9 is monitoring the backup history, leaving the originals in that monitored sub-directory. Then run the *Clean Backup History* and see what happens! (Report back here to let us and everyone else know what happened--okay!?)
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goober Quote:Does cleaning the "backup history" mean that the images made that are stored on the computer or dvd or external hd are rendered unusable?
Well, if the *Clean Backup History* deletes the image files in that directory where the images are being saved (and monitored), then those images will be gone and therefore *unusable*--unless you have manually created a *copy* of those elsewhere for safe-keeping before running the *cleanup*!
But, any images plus their incrementals that are on DVD can not be *deleted* unless the disc is a rewritable (but, I don't know if Ghost 9 will offer to erase a rewritable disc or not?--but, even so, if the disc is not in the drive, then it can not be erased by this process anyway), so they will still be there on the disc and usable--but, they will no longer show up in that *History* log--because you will have deleted the log. So you will have to manually find the image files on the DVD and tell Ghost to use that image--rather than possibly using a more *automated* procedure that Ghost 9 might offer if it was still part of the *monitored* image history. (I'm not sure Ghost will monitor any images that are saved to optical discs--being as the media is *removable*--however!)
For images saved to an external HDD--again because the media is removable, I'm not sure Ghost will be monitoring those image files. But, again you can simply not hook up the external HDD while doing the *cleaning* and those files will be protected from any possible deletion. And, again those images can be manually located and used by Ghost to do any restore procedure from them that you might wish in the future.