Acer Altos EasyStore - Deleting a Backup; Deleting a Client

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Delet i ng a backup
You can delete all backups of a given disk , but you canno t delete just an individual
backup from a specific date and time.
Note: If you dele t e all backups of all disks for a particular computer , t hat
compu
t er no longer displays on the Backups page . However , that computer
name remains in the storage system and coun t s toward t he total number of
compu
t ers that are allowed to back up to the storage system. If you want to delete
all backups of all disks and the computer name, refer to the next section,
“Deleting
a client.”
To delete all backups of a disk:
1 . In the naviga t ion bar , click Backups .
2 . Select the radio button adjacen t to the disk whose backups you want to dele t e
(in the second Select column).
3. Click Delete Backup .
4 . When prompted to confirm the deletion, click OK .
The disk no longer displays on the Backups page, and all backup versions are
deleted
. If only one disk was pro t ected, the computer name disdisplays from t he
page
as well.
Note: If you dele t e a backup and the user did not previously
remove pro t ection for that disk, when the user subsequently accesses
DiskSafe
Express, the Status page will indicate that the backup of the protected disk is
offline.
To back up the disk once again, the user must remove protection and
then
protec t the disk again. For more information, refer to “Removing pro t ection”
and “Protecting your disks” .
Delet i ng a client
If you remove DiskSafe Express from a particular computer , or if you change the
compu t er name, the original computer name remains on the storage system and
counts
toward the t o t al number o f computers tha t are allowed to back up to the
storage
system. To delete all backups of all disks for a particular computer and the
compu
t er name, you must delete the client.
To delete a client:
1 . In the naviga t ion bar , click Backups .
2 . Select the radio button to the lef t of the compu t er whose backups and computer
name
you want to delete from the storage system (in the f irst Select column).