Datastore

In the Datastore section, you can inspect existing backups, check how much space they occupy, set protection for critical copies, or manually delete unnecessary volumes.

Steps

1. Open the Backup → Datastore section.
2. Find the relevant virtual machine in the list.
3. Expand it to see specific backup copies (volumes). You can check their logical size, actual on-disk size, and creation date.
4. If a copy is critically important, enable protection for it. This will safeguard it against automatic or accidental deletion.
5. Delete copies manually only when you are absolutely sure that the data is no longer needed.

Watch out

To delete a protected backup, you must first remove its protection. Remember that if you delete a virtual machine but keep its backups, the storage space used for them will continue to be billed.

Next steps

• Backup jobs — configuring schedules.
• File restore — downloading individual files.
• Delete a VM — how to delete a VM along with its backups.