Reducing your storage footprint on the cloud

This option decreases the amount of data the Unitrends appliance can archive to the storage bucket/container. However, it does not immediately delete archive sets. To reduce your storage footprint, use this option in conjunction with the other options discussed in this table. For instructions on decreasing the purging threshold, see Managing cloud archive storage.

Purge deletes sets that have expired retention to create enough space for the current job without exceeding the purging threshold. This option creates only enough space to complete the current job. For details, see Purge.

Overwrite deletes all sets on the cloud storage and replaces them with the sets in the current job. Overwrite occurs only if all sets on the media have exceeded their retention settings. For details, see Overwrite.You can reduce your cloud storage footprint by decreasing the purging threshold, overwriting the existing data, and developing an archiving strategy based on the lower purging threshold.

For cloud storage, you can enable the Remove Files setting and then use the Remove Sets option to manually delete sets. This option deletes sets regardless of their retention settings. For details, see Removing cloud archive sets. You can reduce your cloud storage footprint by decreasing the purging threshold, manually deleting sets, and developing an archiving strategy based on the lower purging threshold.