Sanctioned way to remove old backups

[andrelop]

Hello,

Is there a sanctioned way to remove old backups ? I can't seem to find an option to delete a given (selected) backup job from the backups listed in Zimbra's admin console.

Is there something like this in Zimbra (Network Edition) or should I really just go to /opt/zimbra/backup and remove the file representing the backup I want to delete ?

[chauvetp]

There's the zmbackup -del command that you can use to delete backups older than a certain time:

from zmbackup --help:

-del,--delete <arg> Deletes backups including and prior to the
specified label, date (YYYY/MM/DD[-hh:mm:ss]) or period (nn{d|m|y}).

example:
zmbackup -del

for a specific backup though, I don't think there is any way other than just deleting the directory. As long as you're not deleting a full backup upon which incrementals are based, I don't think it should have any issues.