Snapshots left by backup?
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I have a backup jobs that runs every night. It's an incremental with a full every 7 days.
I was checking the storage today and I see that there are two snapshots from last night's backup that are still there.
Looking at the logs, last nights backup was an incremental.
How do I determine why the snapshots weren't removed, and can I safely remove them now?
Thanks.
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Hi,
Check the health view for orphaned snapshots or snap attached to the control domain (there should be none outside an active export/backup)
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@olivierlambert Do you mean the Health view under the Backups? That doesn't show any issues.
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dashboard/health
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@olivierlambert Ah, OK. Looked there, everything appears to be OK.
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@farokh the job name is in the snapshot name. Are theses snapshot of the same job ?
Did you enable rolling snapshot on the backup job ? -
@florent I only have 2 jobs. One called VM Backup (yeah, I know very imaginative) which backs up 2 VMs and one call XO backup which backs up the pool metadata and XO config.
The one called VM Backup is a Delta Backup, running daily at 8pm, with a full backup every 7 days.
The snapshots have the name of the backup job (for example: [XO Backup VM Backup] Windows10)
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Hi still looking for info on this.
I deleted the snapshots that had been there, and new ones have been created.
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@farokh one backup job should leave one snapshot.
this is the way. to differentiate from previous backup the data to be put in the delta, it has to refer to this snapshot.
delete it and you get a full backup ongoing.
if you have two snaps on your VM, either you have a manual one, or you have multiple backup jobs backuping this VM (check the backup tab of the VM ?)
