Comprehensive data protection for all workloads
Post Reply
kubimike
Veteran
Posts: 373
Liked: 41 times
Joined: Feb 03, 2017 2:34 pm
Full Name: MikeO
Contact:

Better way to delete backups ?

Post by kubimike »

Hi again, Im getting my Veeam sorted after a migration and I have jobs that were part of an old vCenter that I'd like to manually delete some to free space. I see this view and I tried to right click / delete but its not an option. Any other way to just remove a few restore points from a job ?

Image
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21070
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by foggy »

Just delete them manually and then remove missing restore points from the console.
kubimike
Veteran
Posts: 373
Liked: 41 times
Joined: Feb 03, 2017 2:34 pm
Full Name: MikeO
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by kubimike »

Yeah I was going to do that but it didn't seem elegant. Could we perhaps add a feature request to right click and just delete from the screen above ?
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21070
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by foggy »

We do not encourage people to delete backups this way actually, since there's retention for that.
kubimike
Veteran
Posts: 373
Liked: 41 times
Joined: Feb 03, 2017 2:34 pm
Full Name: MikeO
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by kubimike »

that only occurs if the job is still active. In my case these jobs were retired and replaced by new jobs.
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21070
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by foggy »

...which occurs not so often and can be worked around manually.
kubimike
Veteran
Posts: 373
Liked: 41 times
Joined: Feb 03, 2017 2:34 pm
Full Name: MikeO
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by kubimike »

I'd also like to mention there is no way to highlight more then one at a time in the screenshot shown above. Right clicking and deleting hundreds of restore points isn't fun.
foggy
Veeam Software
Posts: 21070
Liked: 2115 times
Joined: Jul 11, 2011 10:22 am
Full Name: Alexander Fogelson
Contact:

Re: Better way to delete backups ?

Post by foggy »

In case there are too many records, you can ask support for assistance, I believe there should be a database query for that.
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], DonZoomik, Google [Bot], Semrush [Bot] and 103 guests