How to Run Free Space Clean Up to Manually Clear Retention Data
Creation date: 17/10/2022 2:49 PM
Updated: 17/10/2022 2:54 PM
This tutorial explains how to manually run a procedure in your offsite backup OBM client software to clear out old backup files that no longer need to be kept according to your retention policy settings for the backup job.
This procedure can run automatically after every backup schedule, or you can begin the process manually.
This procedure can run automatically after every backup schedule, or you can begin the process manually.
To Perform process Manually without Performing a Backup.
1.
Login to the client user interface, select the Utilities tile.
2. Select Space Freeing up, then the corresponding backup set that you want the job to run on.
3. Select the backup destination location (e.g. OBS, local storage) that you want the job to run on.
4.
Click the Start button to start the retention policy job. You can view the log file of the procedure after it has completed.
NOTE: Old Backup data should be automatically cleaned out after every new backup provided you have the Run Retention Policy After Backup setting enabled in the schedule of your backup settings. Please check this setting is enabled.
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