Deleting a backup
- In the management console
, select the folder where the backup is located. - Select Cloud Backup.
- Go to the
Backups tab. - Click
next to the backup, and select Delete. - Confirm the deletion.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.
The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name
or --folder-id
parameter.
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View a description of the CLI delete backup command:
yc backup backups delete --help
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Get the ID of the backup to delete:
yc backup backups list
Result:
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+------+------------------+--------+---------------------+ | ID | ARCHIVE ID | COMPUTE INSTANCE ID | RESOURCE ID | POLICY ID | TYPE | DISKS | SIZE | CREATED AT | +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+------+------------------+--------+---------------------+ | ab55286e-795f-44dc-90af-b718******** | ef3e8144-fb65-6a59-5ec1-3162******** | jklp0o9i8012******** | 2465BE59-5687-4539-9589-DF7E******** | abc7n3wln123******** | FULL | Disk 1 (15.0 GB) | 1.5 GB | 2023-07-07 16:00:15 | | cd50e147-7dfa-449f-816b-67f8******** | gh06b195-c095-1234-7809-0700******** | mnoa5s6d8345******** | 135C519D-B5A3-4781-8DFA-40B3******** | deflqbiwc456******** | FULL | Disk 1 (15.0 GB) | 1.6 GB | 2023-07-03 10:00:10 | +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+------+------------------+--------+---------------------+
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Get the ID of the VM instance whose backup you want to delete:
yc compute instance list
Result:
+----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+ | ID | NAME | ZONE ID | STATUS | EXTERNAL IP | INTERNAL IP | +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+ | jklp0o9i8012******** | my-vm-1 | ru-central1-b | RUNNING | 51.250.**.** | 192.168.*.* | | mnoa5s6d8345******** | my-vm-2 | ru-central1-b | RUNNING | 84.201.**.** | 192.168.*.* | +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
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Delete the backup:
yc backup backups delete \ --backup-id <backup_ID> \ --instance-id <VM_ID>
Where:
--backup-id
: ID of the backup to delete.--instance-id
: ID of the VM instance whose backup you want to delete.
For more information about the command, see the CLI reference.
To delete a backup, use the delete REST API method for the Backup resource or the BackupService/Delete gRPC API call.
Note
To delete backups, make sure the folder contains at least one VM connected to Cloud Backup. If there are no such VMs, create a new one with a connection to Cloud Backup and delete the backups.