Deleting Backups

With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can permanently delete a backup with all of its recovery points if this backup is available in a Backup Repository. You can also delete specific recovery points in a backup without affecting any of the other recovery points. The option to delete a specific recovery point can be used if you get an alert about corrupted recovery points in a backup.

Note
You can delete a backup only if you have deleted the corresponding backup job or edited the backup job to not include the backup’s source VM or 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. In the main menu, click Settings.

2. Go to the Repositories tab and click the Backup Repository you need.

3. Hover over the backup you want to delete, and on the right side, click Delete.

4. Click Delete in the dialog box that opens.

Note
For a Forever-incremental Backup Repository (that is, when the Store backups in separate files option is not selected), the space that was occupied by the deleted backup is marked “free” and reused by new data blocks on subsequent job runs. However, the actual size of the Backup Repository may not change. To free up the space that was occupied by the deleted backup, you can