Comprehensive data protection for all workloads
Post Reply
brianlees
Enthusiast
Posts: 37
Liked: never
Joined: Apr 18, 2013 8:10 pm
Contact:

Best way to delete all backup files for a job?

Post by brianlees »

I'm changing all our jobs over to reverse incrementals. I would like to take the existing backups and copy them to another drive and just clear out the repository to start fresh. What is the best procedure for doing this? Can I just delete the files and rescan the repository? Would it be easier to clone the backup jobs and delete the old ones? Just looking for a quick best practice on this one.
nefes
Veeam Software
Posts: 643
Liked: 162 times
Joined: Dec 10, 2012 8:44 am
Full Name: Nikita Efes
Contact:

Re: Best way to delete all backup files for a job?

Post by nefes » 1 person likes this post

If you go to Backups-Disk and select said job, you will see "Delete from disk" option in it's context menu.
This will effectively remove files from repository and clean all corresponding records inside Veeam Backup, so you will have a possibility to start from scratch.
Be sure to copy all data you need to the drive you want before deleting, so you won't loose anything.
brianlees
Enthusiast
Posts: 37
Liked: never
Joined: Apr 18, 2013 8:10 pm
Contact:

Re: Best way to delete all backup files for a job?

Post by brianlees »

Thanks. Took a minute to find it but looks easy.
Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], Brian.Knoblauch and 169 guests