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Windows SBS 2003 filling up disk with NTbackup files

(NB This question is similar to https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24587908/Windows-2003-server-and-NTbackup-catalogs.html but the page linked to in the accepted answer is missing now, presumed defunct...)

I have an SBS 2003 server but space was filling up quickly on the system partition (C:\) and less than 1GB left.

I tracked down 9GB of data to the following folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\catalogs51

which contains files ending in extension .V01 (mainly, well 99% of them anyhow)...
dating way back in time to the initial installation of the server 7 years ago

having read up the other question and some of the answers I decided to delete all but those .V01 files from this year (and a .SM and a .VDD from the end of last year) which got rid of 8GB.

Just worried if my backup is now going to be screwed?
I don't mind if a restore takes a bit longer...

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Alas it was our previous IT services company who set up this SBS server.

However the data is being backed up to tape, its only these V01 files that are going to C:\.

I had a quick look rounds SBS's backup configuration and couldn't see a way to change the location of the log files (if indeed this is what they are).
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