Expiring backups manually

HYCU for Google Cloud 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.

Depending on whether the selected restore point belongs to an instance, an application, or a bucket, it can contain one or more tiers that you can mark as expired:

• For instances and Google Kubernetes Engine applications : Snapshot, Backup, Copy, and/or Archive

  i Important  Only the Backup tier is available for GKE applications not using persistent volumes.

• For SAP HANA applications: Full or Incremental

  i Important  Only Full can be marked as expired if at least one successful full backup has been created after it.

• 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.

Depending on whether you want to expire old backups for an instance, an application, or a bucket, access one of the following panels:

• Accessing the Instances panel

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

• Accessing the Applications panel

  To access the Applications panel, in the navigation pane, click  Applications.

• Accessing the Buckets panel

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

Procedure

1. In the Instances, Applications, or Buckets panel, click the instance, the application, 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, an application, 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 n instance , a GKE application, or a bucket 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 and GKE applications using persistent volumes.

   • 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 Google Cloud removes the corresponding data from Google Compute Engine (snapshots) or Google Cloud Storage (other tiers).