Cleanup Old Snapshots
Using the vSphere Plugin version 6.6.3 and later, if the VMware system contains snapshots that were not deleted automatically by the vSphere Plugin, the following commands are useful to clean up your system.
Cleanup old snapshots and previous failed generation
vsphere-ctl clean-snapshot --snapshot myhost
Cleanup old snapshots with a name starting with a string
vsphere-ctl clean-snapshot --snapshot-base pluginTest myhost
Cleanup snapshots with all children (probably faster)
vsphere-ctl clean-snapshot --snapshot --snapshot-delete-child myhost
When starting a new backup job, the vSphere Plugin will automatically check if the previous job had a problem and will delete the old snapshot if required.
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