Creating and deleting backups manually

You can initiate an instant backup job for a single volume by creating a backup manually. Such a backup does not have a retention policy and can only be deleted manually.

Limitations

  • You cannot delete a backup that has dependent backups. To delete a full backup chain, start deleting its backups one by one backwards, starting from the latest incremental backup and finishing with the full backup.

To manually create a volume backup

  1. On the Volumes screen, click a volume that you want to back up.
  2. On the volume right pane, click Create backup now.

Once the backup is created, it will appear on the Recovery points screen.

To manually delete a volume backup

  1. On the Recovery points screen, click the recovery point that you want to delete.
  2. Click Delete in the confirmation window.

After deleting a recovery point, all its data will be lost.