Removing Backups and Snapshots
Veeam Backup for GCP applies the configured retention policy settings to automatically remove cloud-native snapshots and image-level backups created by backup policies. If necessary, you can also remove the backed-up data manually.
Important |
Do not delete backup files from GCP storage buckets in the Google Cloud Console. If some file in a backup chain is missing, you will not be able to roll back VM instance data to the necessary state. |
To remove backed-up data manually, do the following:
- Navigate to Protected Data.
- Select VM instances whose data you want to remove.
- Click Remove and select either of the following options:
- Snapshots > Snapshots — to remove all cloud-native snapshots created for the selected VM instances by backup policies.
- Snapshots > Manual — to remove all cloud-native snapshots created for the selected VM instances manually.
If you want to remove only specific cloud-native snapshots, follow the instruction provided in section Removing Snapshots Created Manually.
- Snapshots > All — to remove all cloud-native snapshots created for the selected VM instances both by backup policies and manually.
- Backups — to remove all image-level backups created for the selected VM instances.
- Snapshots and backups — to remove both cloud-native snapshots and image-level backups created for the selected VM instances.
