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Remove erroneous files from history without blowing away the entire history

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Maybe the answer was there and I read past it. In my backup history I had a couple of non-existent entries. Try as I might, I couldn't get rid of them. By experimentation I discovered that if I reinstalled Ghost it would clean the history, remove the "bad" entries but also removing everything else. The recovery points were still out there but I couldn't find a way to get Ghost to discover the "good" recovery points.

 

I have multiple drives just for back ups and they are half to three-quarters full. The "manage" backup destination doesn't work worth beans as it doesn't recognize the scores of recovery points on the drive prior to reinstall. I was checking the forums and found some messages similar to mine but the fix for removing the bad entries was simpler than a reinstall. Skipping the details, it involved deleting some files in programdata. Well, to a degree it worked, it got rid of the bad entries - and all the other history. So here's the question, is there a way I can insert recovery points into the history, wherever that is hiding?

 

I've done a lot of snooping in the sv2i files and even found an entry for the bad files but since I had no idea what I was doing and could figure out where one section ended and another began, I backed out of that rat's nest. The ability to change the recovery history would be slick, especially if there is a way to ONLY delete the erroneous entries. What do you think?


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