Manual Cleaning of Target Repository

[AdrianHinton]

Hi all,

If the need arises, what is the best way to manually clean your backup copy folders? Such as in the case of a corrupted increment or full and you re-map your job. How can you determine which files to be deleted?

[veremin]

If the need arises, what is the best way to manually clean your backup copy folders?

Shorten retention policy and let it delete unnecessary backup data in automatic fashion.

such as in the case of a corrupted increment or full and you re-map your job.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by corrupted increment? Are probably talking here about incomplete increments (ones that haven't been processed completely during sync interval)?

Thanks.

[AdrianHinton]

I have had times where a copy job has failed and I have moved the data to a new directory, remapped the job and continued. I can see that there are some files not in use by the job and they look like candidates for manual removal.

[foggy]

Everything prior to the latest full backup is not in use by the backup copy job and can be removed.

[AdrianHinton]

I've opened #00614219 because the backup job properties show 9 increments (8 when using Get-VBRRestorePoint) and on the repo there are 116 .vib's. I just need an official response before doing the cleaning.

[veremin]

Are they dependent on the latest full backup or they were created prior to it? In the latter case, you can simply delete them, as Foggy's pointed us. Thanks.