delete backup

Deletes the selected backups from an archive. If incremental or differential backups depend on the backups being deleted, a consolidation will be performed. This consolidation may be time and resource consuming.

Examples

Parameters

--loc=<path>
--credentials=<user name>,<password>,encrypted
--arc=<archive name>
--password=<password>,encrypted
--backup=<backup IDs>

General parameters

--log=<full path>
--log_format={structured|unstructured}
--progress
{-f|--file_params}=<full local path>

Access to a remote machine

--host=<IP address or hostname>
--credentials=<user name>,<password>,encrypted
--address=<IP address or hostname>

Access to a specific service within a machine

--service={mms|ams|asn}

In a managed location (--loc=bsp://<storage node>/<location name>), the operation is always executed by the storage node service. If you specify a different service, it will transmit the command to asn.