Removing File Share Snapshots

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure applies the configured retention policy settings to automatically remove cloud-native snapshots created by backup policies. If necessary, you can also remove the backed-up data manually.

Note

In Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, you can remove only snapshots created by the Veeam backup service. To delete External snapshots, use Microsoft Azure portal as described in Microsoft Docs.

To remove backed-up data manually, do the following:

  1. Navigate to Protected Data > Azure Files.
  2. Select Azure file shares whose data you want to remove.
  3. Click Remove and select either of the following options:
  • All — to remove all cloud-native snapshots created for the selected Azure file shares both by backup policies and manually.
  • Policy Snapshots — to remove all cloud-native snapshots created for the selected Azure file shares by backup policies.
  • Manual Snapshots — to remove all cloud-native snapshots created for the selected Azure file shares manually.

Removing Snapshots