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Recipe: SOBR - Removing Backups from Capacity or Archive Tier

Expected deliverables:

Removal of moved or copied backups from capacity or archive extent.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• An existing Scale-Out Backup Repository with at least the Capacity Tier

Before you start:

If the backup chain was created as a single storage backup file, you will need to remove all the VMs from the backup, or the whole backup itself. Otherwise, no capacity will be freed. Immutable backups cannot be removed. If the capacity or archive extent has been put into the Maintenance mode, the removal of data from such a repository is not possible until the extent is removed from the Maintenance mod

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.

Method:

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
2. In the Home screen, select Backups > Capacity Tier if you want to delete a backup from the capacity tier, or Backups > Archive Tier if you want to delete backups from the archive tier.
3. Right-click a backup and select Delete from disk.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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