topic Re: SME snapinfo directories taking up too much space - can I just manually delete them? in Data Protection https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/SME-snapinfo-directories-taking-up-too-much-space-can-I-just-manually-delete/m-p/25017#M7558 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Since you have not gotten an answer, you may want to ask this question in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community.</A>&nbsp; The current customers, partners and internal Subject Matter Experts are addressing technical product questions there.</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:21:18 GMT crocker 2012-02-23T20:21:18Z SME snapinfo directories taking up too much space - can I just manually delete them? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/SME-snapinfo-directories-taking-up-too-much-space-can-I-just-manually-delete/m-p/25012#M7557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>What is the purpose of all the truncated transactional logs kept in the snapinfo directory? I understand their purpose is to allow up-to-the-minute restores of backups.&nbsp; </P><P>Our path is : Z:\sme_snapinfo\EXCH__EXCHANGE1\SG__Exchange1</P><P></P><P>These directories in the snapinfo directory are taking up too much space in our system.</P><P></P><P>We have 60 days of backups that I've taken all with up-to-the-minute option checked off. </P><P></P><P>If I now only want up-to-the-minute restore capibility for the last 15 days and point-in-time (instead of up-to-the-minute) restores for the 45 days after that, can I simply delete these older than 15 day snapinfo directories within Windows Exploer?</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P></P><P>Dean</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:34:29 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/SME-snapinfo-directories-taking-up-too-much-space-can-I-just-manually-delete/m-p/25012#M7557 dwutke 2025-06-05T06:34:29Z Re: SME snapinfo directories taking up too much space - can I just manually delete them? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/SME-snapinfo-directories-taking-up-too-much-space-can-I-just-manually-delete/m-p/25017#M7558 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P>Since you have not gotten an answer, you may want to ask this question in the <A href="https://forums.netapp.com/community/support" target="_blank">NetApp Support Community.</A>&nbsp; The current customers, partners and internal Subject Matter Experts are addressing technical product questions there.</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:21:18 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/SME-snapinfo-directories-taking-up-too-much-space-can-I-just-manually-delete/m-p/25017#M7558 crocker 2012-02-23T20:21:18Z