How To Remove Backup Sets In Veritas Backup Exec

From Veritas Backup Exec 2014 onwards, it has no option to delete the backup sets however we can set the expiry date to clean up backup sets.

In this blog we are showing how to remove backup set in Veritas Backup Exec 20.1.

Issue: In case there is low space on the backup storage or some onetime backup needs to be removed but there isn’t any option to delete the backup set.

Cause: Delete backup set button has been replaced by expiry backup set option.

Solution: To delete a backup set follow the bellow steps;

Steps–

1. Right click on Veritas Backup Exec central admin server icon and select the option “Run as administrator” to launch backup Exec console. Read More