Deleting IBM Cloud Backup for Classic backup tasks

Delete backup tasks from your IBM Cloud Backup for Classic vault through the Cloud Backup Portal to remove stored backup data while preserving job configurations.

A backup job specifies which data to back up on a system, specifies where to save the data, and contains other backup settings. A backup task is the data that is stored in the vault. You can delete backup jobs from online servers without deleting the job data from vaults from the Cloud Backup Portal, so you can use the data later to restore a server. By following these steps, you can delete backup task from the vault.

1. Log in to the IBM Cloud console. From the menu , select Infrastructure > Classic Infrastructure.

2. Click Storage > Cloud Backup to display the backup services.

3. Select the instance name of the IBM Cloud Account.

4. Click Backup on the Cloud Backup details page. Jobs and Tasks information is displayed.

   For example, each virtual machine in a Hyper-V backup job is backed up as a separate task on the vault, and is automatically assigned a unique task name. To help you find each task on the vault, you can view the task name for each protected Hyper-V virtual machine in the Cloud Backup Portal. The task name for each virtual machine is shown on the virtual machines screen for a Hyper-V Agent. In previous Portal versions, the task name appeared in a tooltip if you pointed to the virtual machine name.

5. Locate the task that you want to delete from the vault. Click the minus sign to remove the data from the vault.

   Backup data deletion is permanent. After the data is deleted from vaults, it cannot be recovered or restored.

   If you want to delete a specific dataset and not the entire task, you need to raise a support case. For more information, see the FAQs.