Delete Backup positional parameters
Positional parameters immediately follow the delete backup command and precede the optional parameters.
The following positional parameters specify the backup
to delete:
- * | database_name
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- *
- Delete the active backups of all databases.
- database_name
- Delete a backup of the specified database name. The active backup is deleted unless you specify a different backup with the /object parameter. When multiple active incremental backups exist, the /object parameter must be specified with the delete command.
Attention:
- Be careful to delete only the backups you want.
- Deleting incremental or differential backups can cause loss of recovery points.
- Deleting a full backup might cause incremental or differential backups to remain in a suspended state and are considered useless without a corresponding full backup.
The following positional parameters specify the type of
delete backup to perform:
- FULL|COPY|INCRemental|DIFFerential
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- FULL
- Delete full type backups.
- COPY
- Delete copy type backups.
- INCRemental
- Delete incremental type backups.
- DIFFerential
- Delete differential type backups.