Deleting Backups

With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can permanently delete a backup (including all of its recovery points) if it is available in a Backup Repository. Also, you can delete specific recovery points of a backup without affecting any of the others. The latter option may be preferred if the solution identifies corrupted recovery points within a backup and alerts accordingly.

Note
You can only delete a backup if you have deleted the corresponding backup job or edited the backup job so that it does not include the backup’s source VM or a physical machine.

Refer to one of the following sections:

• Deleting a Single Backup
• Deleting Backups in Bulk
• Deleting Recovery Points
  • Deleting a Single Recovery Point
  • Bulk Recovery Points Deletion

Deleting a Single Backup

To delete a backup permanently, follow the steps below:

1. Click Settings in the main menu of the product.

2. Go to the Repositories tab and click a Backup Repository.

3. Hover over the backup you want to delete.

4. On the right side, click Delete.

5. Click Delete in the dialog box that opens.

Note
For a forever-incremental (Store backups in separate files option is not selected) Backup Repository, the space occupied by the backup will be marked as “free” and reused by new data blocks on the next job runs, though the actual size of the Backup Reposito