Removing Old Backup Chains

[ckowaliw]

Hello,

I'm working with a customer that have 5 day retention set on their jobs. However, when examining the backups, they have other chains and files dating back more than 8 months. They are running low on space on their backup volume. I realize I can delete the backup files, but is there a way to remove the entries from the backup view?

Thanks
Cam.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Cam,

The only proper way to remove previous restore points is to use retention policy settings for that. What is the retention policy settings for this job, I assume it is 5 points, not days, right? What backup mode are you using? How many VBK files do you have on the backup repository?

I realize I can delete the backup files, but is there a way to remove the entries from the backup view?

I might be missing something, but how would that help in reclaiming free space? Removing backup records from the SQL database will not free up the space on your repository.

Thanks!

[dellock6]

You can delete backups from the GUI, the command will delete the entries in the database and also the files on disk.

Luca.

[Simon972]

Hello,

How do I delete some restore points via the veeam's interface 6.1 ? (not all...)

[Vitaliy S.]

If you want to remove some "unneeded" restore points, you need to adjust the job retention policy accordingly. There is no manual way to remove restore points from the backup chain.

Out of curiosity, what exactly would you like to remove?

[Simon972]

I made a change to my backup jobs (day of the full), my restore points are 14(defined) and now they are 20 (filers on the server)... I suppose that by modifying the job it starts calculating at zero. I want to delete old retore point to gain place.

Thanks,
Simon

[foggy]

Simon, what backup mode do you use (forward/reverse incremental)?

[Simon972]

Incremental with synthetic full; and it perform a full backup per week.

[foggy]

Then please check this thread out for explanation on the number of restore points stored on disk when using this mode.

I suppose that by modifying the job it starts calculating at zero.

It doesn't. All existing restore points in the backup chain are subject to the specified retention settings (unless the chain is broken for some reason).

[Simon972]

Thanks for the thread, I reduced the number of retention (10) and its ok now.