Cleaning up old recovery points
Over time, you might end up with recovery points that you no longer need. For example, you might have several older recovery points that you no longer need because you have more current ones containing your latest work.
The Clean Up feature deletes all but the most current recovery point set, to help make more space available on your hard disk.
Note: After you delete a recovery point, you no longer have access to the files or system recovery from that point in time. You should explore the contents of the recovery point before you delete it.
To clean up old recovery points
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On the View menu, click Tools.
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Click Manage Backup Destination. and then clickClean Up.Note: TheClean Upbutton is enabled based on the settings that are selected in theManage Backup Destination Settingsdialog box and when the recovery point set limit is reached.
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In the Clean Up Recovery Points dialog box, select the recovery points that you want to delete.
The recovery point sets that can be safely removed without eliminating your latest recovery point are selected automatically. You can also select or deselect the recovery point sets to specify which ones to remove.
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Click Delete.
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Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
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Click OK.
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