How do I delete a Rapid Restore backup?

[stinkypete]

Hi,

I looked on the online help, and on Google, but I didn't see how to do this:

How do I delete previous backups made with Rapid Restore Ultra 4.0? I have 4 backups and I am sure I do not need the first two.

I am wondering if this is even possible, since I noticed each of the following backups after the first seem to be incremental (or differential) and only take up a 1 or 2 hundred more megs on the hard drive. The very first backup took about 4.5 GB.

Thanks in advance,

[SeanM]

You can delete all of the backups, by making a backup manually but unchecking all the "destinations". However, you won't get more than 4 or 5 backups. . .after that, assuming you're talking about automatic backups, rapid restore will start merging the earlier ones.

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If I uncheck everything, will that delete EVERYTHING? I only want to delete my last backup (the only one I made manually) but I want to leave the original IBM backup files and image on there. Thanks for your help-

-Dan

[s0larian]

Here you can download a little tool from IBM:
http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/rrtools/rrtools-p

With ibmrrutil.exe you can delete i.e. your last backup in the following way:
IBMRRUTIL -br \RRUbackups\C\3

(Backups are stored in folders from 0 to 5 where 0 is the first base image. If you don't know the number of your last backup, just look in the tvt.txt file in "c:\program files\ibm\IBM Rapid Restore Ultra")

After doing this you have to edit the tvt.txt file. Delete the section correspondending to your deleted backup (i.e. [Backup3]).

There is also another tvt.txt file in the \RRUbackups folder where you should delete the correspondending backup section (probably it is used for restoring from the rescue environment). To access this file you have to make the folder visible and accessible, even for the Administrator. I hope you know how to do that. Of course if you are doing it this way you can just delete the folder directly without using IBMRRUTIL.exe.

Hope this helps.

[Zeitgeist]

I am impressed, finally somebody who is familiar with RRwRR!

[synapse]

Hi-

I just want to make sure I am doing this right. Can you tell me what I need to delete to only keep the original backup? Thanks!

-Dan

Code: Select all

[Scheduler]
Task1=RapidRestoreUltra
Task2=egatherer

[egatherer]
ScheduleFrequency=2
Task=c:\IBMTOOLS\eGatherer\launcheg.exe
ScheduleHour=0
ScheduleMinute=0
ScheduleDayOfTheWeek=0
ScheduleWakeForBackup=0
LastScheduledRunHigh=0x01C471DA
LastScheduledRunLow=0x540B4350
NextScheduledRunHigh=0x01C4777C
NextScheduledRunLow=0x04006000

[RapidRestoreUltra]
LastBackupLocation=1
CustomPartitions=0
Exclude=0
Include=0
CustomStorageSettings=1
MaxNumberOfIncrementalBackups=5
MaxBackupSize=0
EncryptBackupData=1
UUIDMatchRequired=0
PasswordRequired=0
ScheduleFrequency=0
DisableArchive=0
DisableRestore=0
DisablePreferences=0
DisableSFR=0
CPUPriority=3
Yield=0
Ver=4.0
Task=C:\Program Files\IBM\IBM Rapid Restore Ultra\rrucmd.exe
TaskParameters=BACKUP location=L name="Scheduled"
BackupCount=1

[RestoreFilesFolders]
WinHiddenFolders=%RRUBACKUPS%,%MININT%,%PREBOOT%
PEHiddenFolders=%RRUBACKUPS%,%MININT%,%PREBOOT%,Z:\
AllowDeleteC=FALSE

[BackupDisk]
BytesPerSector=512
SectorsPerTrack=63
TracksPerCylinder=240
Cylinders=10337
Signature=0xCCCDCCCD
PartitionCount=2
BackupPartition=1
[Partition1]
StartingOffsetHigh=0x00000000
StartingOffsetLow=0x00007E00
PartitionLengthHigh=0x00000011
PartitionLengthLow=0x8FAB6200
PartitionType=0x07
BootIndicator=1
HiddenSectors=63
RecognizedPartition=1
DriveLetter=C:
FreeBytesHigh=0x00000006
FreeBytesLow=0x5A0CE000
Label=IBM_PRELOAD
Serial=0xE43DD188
IncludeInBackup=1
[Partition2]
StartingOffsetHigh=0x00000011
StartingOffsetLow=0x8FABE000
PartitionLengthHigh=0x00000001
PartitionLengthLow=0x12164000
PartitionType=0x12
BootIndicator=0
HiddenSectors=147314160
RecognizedPartition=1
FAT32LABEL=IBM_SERVICE
FreeBytesHigh=0x00000000
FreeBytesLow=0x00000000
[Backup0]
StartTimeLow=0x0E647C80
StartTimeHigh=0x01C472DA
DisplayDate=7/26/2004
DisplayTime=2:30 AM
Name=Before BIOS and EC update
Partitions=0x00000004
Location=1
Level=0

[s0larian]

Nothing to do for you anymore! You are fine as it is.

At the very bottom there is the section [Backup0], which defines your base image (which means the \RRUbackups\C\0 folder). If there would be more backups, you would see more sections like [Backup1], [Backup2] and so forth. I had to delete them manually after using IBMRRUTIL.exe for some reason. For you it must have worked automatically somehow.

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Hm... actually I haven't deleted the image yet. My HD space is still about 23 gig less than before I ran the backup. This is really weird if it isn't showing up. I used IBM Rapid Restore Ultra 4.0 I don't want to wipe out the original files but now I don't even know if it will work.

[s0larian]

Then just do "IBMRRUTIL -br \RRUbackups\C\x" for x={1,2,3,4,5} and the backups will be gone, if they are still there. I am using RR 4 as well, so this should really work.

[varughese]

Hi.
TO access into the rrucmd.exe it ask for a user and password .
i am the administrator and i know my password to log onto my system on boot up to network (novel client) but this same password dont seems to let me into the rrucmd.exe

Please can you help
Thanking you in advance