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albertwt
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Unable to delete old VMs in the Backup Copy job ?

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Hi All,

I need to delete old VMs to release some disk space in some of the Backup Copy job, bu somehow I cannot do it easily by right click from Veeam Console:
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Veeam Backup and Replication
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Unable to perform the operation while primary backup job or database transaction log backup job is running.
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OK
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I have make sure that there is no Backup Job running, but I still get that error message above ? :?:

My goal here is to be able to reclaim the disk space on the Backup repository, because it is now 99% full.
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Re: Unable to delete old VMs in the Backup Copy job ?

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Did you disable the backup copy job ? This is needed before you can remove files from it.
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Re: Unable to delete old VMs in the Backup Copy job ?

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Ah I see, is that because of the Backup copy is always running continuously ?
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Re: Unable to delete old VMs in the Backup Copy job ?

Post by nielsengelen » 1 person likes this post

Correct. The files are locked due to this.
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