@Mildur
I also have a customer who asks how it is possible to delete certain VM restore points from an onprem S3 repo (so API costs/transfers are not an issue).
We have a GFS policy and AFAIK those restore points are like a synthetic full and it should be possible to delete some of them without breaking the backup chain.
The planned GFS policy is: 30x daily, 26x weekly, 12x monthly, 8x yearly
As we don't know the exact space consumption going forward, the customer wants to keep the option open to delete some older restore points to gain space if needed.
How would it possible to delete the lastest "yearly" restore point of a certain VM?
Or is it only possible to delete the oldest restore points of all VMs in a certain job with lowering the retention in the GFS setting? (like going from 8x yearly to 6x yearly)
I also have a customer who asks how it is possible to delete certain VM restore points from an onprem S3 repo (so API costs/transfers are not an issue).
We have a GFS policy and AFAIK those restore points are like a synthetic full and it should be possible to delete some of them without breaking the backup chain.
The planned GFS policy is: 30x daily, 26x weekly, 12x monthly, 8x yearly
As we don't know the exact space consumption going forward, the customer wants to keep the option open to delete some older restore points to gain space if needed.
How would it possible to delete the lastest "yearly" restore point of a certain VM?
Or is it only possible to delete the oldest restore points of all VMs in a certain job with lowering the retention in the GFS setting? (like going from 8x yearly to 6x yearly)
Statistics: Posted by vee789 — May 15, 2026 10:35 am
