You can delete backups if you no longer require the backup for other data protection operations.
Before you begin
You must have deleted the associated clones before deleting a backup.
If a backup is associated with a cloned resource, you cannot delete the backup.
Procedure
- In the left navigation pane, click Resources, and then select the appropriate plug-in from the list.
- In the Resources page either select the resource or resource group from the View drop-down list.
- Select the resource or resource group from the list.
The resource or resource
group topology page is displayed.
- From the Manage Copies view, select Backups from the primary storage systems.
You cannot delete the backups that are on the secondary storage system.
- Select the backup, and then click
.
- Click OK.
Note: If you have some stale database backups in SnapCenter which do not have corresponding backups on the storage system, you must use remove-smbackup command to clean up these stale backup entries. If the stale backups were cataloged, they will be uncataloged from the recovery catalog database.