Backup
Datastore
Managing saved backups: viewing sizes, protecting from deletion, and manual cleanup.
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
- Open the
Backup → Datastoresection. - Find the relevant virtual machine in the list.
- Expand it to see specific backup copies (volumes). You can check their logical size, actual on-disk size, and creation date.
- If a copy is critically important, enable protection for it. This will safeguard it against automatic or accidental deletion.
- Delete copies manually only when you are absolutely sure that the data is no longer needed. You can also Delete all backups for a VM group from the group row menu.
- Use File restore on a volume to browse and download individual files (without a full VM restore).
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. Full VM restore is on VM → Backups; this page is for management and file restore.