Expiring backups manually

HYCU for AWS expires backups automatically according to the retention period that is set for the backup data in the policy. However, if there is a restore point that you do not want to use for restoring data anymore, you can at any time expire it manually. You can do this also for restore points whose backup status is Failed or Aborted if you want to free storage space.

A restore point represents data that was backed up at a specified point in time. Your restore point can contain one or more tiers—Backup, Copy, Archive—that can be marked as expired also individually. Keep in mind that the Catalog tier cannot be marked as expired.

The selected restore point can contain one or more tiers that you can mark as expired:

• For instances: Snapshot, Backup, Copy, and/or Archive

• For buckets: Backup, Copy, and/or Archive

You can mark as expired one of the following:

• Entire restore point

  Make sure that all tiers are marked for expiration.

• One or more tiers:

  Make sure that only the tiers that you want to expire are marked for expiration.

  n Note  You cannot manually expire tiers on targets with Object Lock (WORM) enabled.

To expire old backups for an instance or a bucket, access the following panels:

• Accessing the Instances panel

  To access the Instances panel, in the navigation pane, click  Instances.

• Accessing the Buckets panel

  To access the Buckets panel, in the navigation pane, click  Buckets.

Procedure

1. In the Instances or Buckets panel, click the instance or the bucket for which you want to expire a backup. The Details section appears at the bottom of the screen.

   n Note  The Details section appears only if you click an instance or a bucket. Selecting the check box before its name does not open the Details section.

2. In the Details section, select the restore point that you want to mark as expired.

3. Click  Expire. The Expire dialog box opens

4. Only if marking a restore point as expired and its backup status is not Failed or Aborted. Select the tiers that you want to mark as expired:

   • Backup (Snapshot): Available only for instances.

   • Backup (Target)

   • Copy

   • Archive - daily

   • Archive - weekly

   • Archive - monthly

   • Archive - yearly

   The tiers that are available for expiration are based on the options that you set in your policy. By selecting all the tiers, you mark the entire restore point as expired.

5. Click Yes to confirm that you want the selected tiers to be marked as expired.

The first next retention maintenance task in HYCU for AWS removes the corresponding data from Amazon EC2 (snaphosts) or Amazon S3 (other tiers).