Permanently Delete Files From Server

How to get here in the StoreGrid Web Console?
  In the top menu, select: "Backup->List Backup Schedule". This will list the list of backup schedules configured in a table format. From the backup schedule row for which files have to be deleted permanently from the server, click on the delete icon in the Action column. This will take you to the "Delete Backup Data/Schedule" page. select the radio button "Backup Data only". You will see a choice asking as "Delete specific files only ?". Select the radio button "Yes, let me choose files to delete" for that choice.

To delete specific files and folders of a backup schedule permanently from the backup server, you need to follow the steps below:

Step 1: Select The Backup Name And The Backup Server - The backup name is a non editable field here. The backup server will also be non-editable if the backup schedule is backing up to only one server. If the backup schedule is backing up to more than one server, then you need to choose the server here from the choice box.

Step 2: Select Version To Delete - Here all the full backups that have been taken are listed with the timestamp when each of these full backups was taken. If the backup schedule was not configured with multiple full backups, then this list will have only one entry - that of the first full backup. You can choose any full backup based on the timestamp for deletion. Note that the tree in Step 3 loads with the files/folders based on what full backup you choose here. Also, by default the tree in step 3 is loaded for the latest full backup of the backup schedule.

Step 3: Select Files And Folders - Here is where you have to select the files/folders to be permanently deleted from the server. You can filter the tree by entering a wild card (*.doc etc.) in the Filter files/folders text field. Note that the tree will not list the number of versions of each file. The idea is if you delete a file permanently from the server, then all its versions under the chosen full backup (in Step 2) will be deleted.

Step 4: Confirm Delete Settings - You need to provide the following inputs here:

1. If your backup schedule is password protected, you need to provide the password here.

2. If you check the "Remove Deleted Files Only" checkbox, then the delete operation will delete only the files on the server that have been deleted in the the client machine. That is, if a file has been deleted by the user in the client, then StoreGrid client would have saved the information that the file has been deleted in the client. The StoreGrid server in turn would tag the file as deleted. So, by checking this checkbox, you are configuring deletion of only deleted files. This feature is useful as you can select the entire Root Drive in the tree and check this checkbox and perform the delete operation. The server will only permanently delete the files tagged as deleted in the client.