KB10043 I want to delete specific backup.
- Adam Spinek
KB ID: 10043
Product: vProtect
Version: not applicable
Published: 2021-10-07
Last modified: 2021-10-07
Problem
I want to delete specific backup.
Solution
There is no mechanism in vProtect that allow to delete selected backups. Administrator need to manually delete backup files.
Please remember if you delete full, or incremental backup, from the longer backup chain, all dependent backups will be not usable later and deleted by clean old backup task.
Go to the instance whose backup you want to delete. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click magnifying glass next to the backup you want to delete.
In backup details window note the time of all files.
Next ssh to vprotect node host and go to the backup destination directory. Find the directory with the name of your VM and list all files
tree -ughD aspinek_test_alpine__caebde25/
[root@vprotect backup]# tree -ughD aspinek_test_alpine__caebde25/
aspinek_test_alpine__caebde25/
└── [vprotect vprotect 43 Sep 29 12:36] vprotect_data
└── [vprotect vprotect 63 Sep 29 12:36] aspinek_test_alpine__caebde25
├── [vprotect vprotect 90 Oct 7 13:38] aspinek_test_alpine_Disk1.raw
│ ├── [vprotect vprotect 5.0G Sep 29 13:19] 1632914480118
│ ├── [vprotect vprotect 5.0G Oct 5 11:58] 1633428038437
│ ├── [vprotect vprotect 5.0G Oct 7 11:45] 1633600086457
│ └── [vprotect vprotect 5.0G Oct 7 13:36] 1633606706242
└── [vprotect vprotect 90 Oct 7 13:38] metadata.ovf
├── [vprotect vprotect 72K Sep 29 13:17] 1632914480391
├── [vprotect vprotect 99K Oct 5 11:47] 1633428038541
├── [vprotect vprotect 72K Oct 7 11:44] 1633600086564
└── [vprotect vprotect 45K Oct 7 13:35] 1633606706319The names of the files are presented as Linux timestamps. Use online converter to check the date of particular file and compare it to previously noted times. If the dates are the same, you can delete the file.
