topic Deletion of freed backups in Data Protection https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61342#M7091 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Can anyone tell me the process of deleting Freed backups in SMO / SMSAP. We have a SMO 3.2 installation and integration with Protection Manager. We have a 3 days retention set up in SMO and a two weeks retention set up in Protection manager for the secondary storage.</P><P>The primary retention works fine, after three days the backups turn from EXIST to FREE but then they stay FREE in the repository until I manually delete them. I want backups to be automatically deleted in SMO after the retention period of two weeks that is set up in Protection Manager.</P><P></P><P>How and when does SMO check if the backup still exist on secondary storage and, if not, deletes the backup from the repository.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:26:29 GMT fredrik 2025-06-05T06:26:29Z Deletion of freed backups https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61342#M7091 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Can anyone tell me the process of deleting Freed backups in SMO / SMSAP. We have a SMO 3.2 installation and integration with Protection Manager. We have a 3 days retention set up in SMO and a two weeks retention set up in Protection manager for the secondary storage.</P><P>The primary retention works fine, after three days the backups turn from EXIST to FREE but then they stay FREE in the repository until I manually delete them. I want backups to be automatically deleted in SMO after the retention period of two weeks that is set up in Protection Manager.</P><P></P><P>How and when does SMO check if the backup still exist on secondary storage and, if not, deletes the backup from the repository.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:26:29 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61342#M7091 fredrik 2025-06-05T06:26:29Z Re: Deletion of freed backups https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61348#M7092 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>it should be deleted automatically after the retention expired on the PM.</P><P> However there were changes with version 3.2 related to keeping history in the SMODB repository, so this could be a bug that came out of those changes, see page 275 of the instalation guide.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 23 May 2012 16:35:19 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61348#M7092 jcosta 2012-05-23T16:35:19Z Re: Deletion of freed backups https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61353#M7093 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>OK, Thank's Jorge. I have created a case regarding this and will let you know</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:25:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Deletion-of-freed-backups/m-p/61353#M7093 fredrik 2012-06-04T20:25:14Z