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Looking for advice on managing storage within an integrated vCenter/Veeam configuration where my backups at backing onto an external storage device. I’m not going to lie I am still timid working in these environments because I have never been to play around in a non production environment so I think it best to get some advice form those of you who are well versed in these products. So the situation is over the years we have created various jobs when issues occurred during backups and now I am wanting to understand the proper way to delete old backups in order to give the NAS some breathing room.  I didn't want to just login to the NAS and literally delete files as I’m pretty certain the VMWare/Veeam setup is aware of all files and folders and don’t want to break the linking.

What is the proper way to clean up old backups and have the system correctly identify space and removed items etc. Thank you.

Best answer by Chris.Childerhose

STORMTREKKER wrote:

So under that area I have both Backup jobs and Replicas, my Backup jobs themselves are fairly current but under Replicas I have all my VM’s listed, in fact multiple instances of the same VM. So lets say I have replica VM listed 3 separate times during the years, so I have replicas spanning back to 2021 and it indicates 3 restore points, deleting that  VM replication is safe then.

Yes it is from within Veeam as it will then know about it.

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Chris.Childerhose
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Welcome to the community.

Using the Veeam console is the best way to remove backups.  On the Home tab on the left side you will see the Backups.  Under this will be Disk, Object, etc.  It is from here that you remove backups from the storage as Veeam will then clean them up and synchronize the DB.

See here -

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/delete_backup_from_disk.html?ver=120

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/deleting_backups_from_object_storage.html?ver=120


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Thanks Chris I will have a look at that area and let you know how it goes.


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STORMTREKKER wrote:

Thanks Chris I will have a look at that area and let you know how it goes.

Not a problem.  Just let us know if you have any other questions but these pages should help.

 
 
 

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So under that area I have both Backup jobs and Replicas, my Backup jobs themselves are fairly current but under Replicas I have all my VM’s listed, in fact multiple instances of the same VM. So lets say I have replica VM listed 3 separate times during the years, so I have replicas spanning back to 2021 and it indicates 3 restore points, deleting that  VM replication is safe then.


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STORMTREKKER wrote:

So under that area I have both Backup jobs and Replicas, my Backup jobs themselves are fairly current but under Replicas I have all my VM’s listed, in fact multiple instances of the same VM. So lets say I have replica VM listed 3 separate times during the years, so I have replicas spanning back to 2021 and it indicates 3 restore points, deleting that  VM replication is safe then.

Yes it is from within Veeam as it will then know about it.


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