Delete or Remove Server Backup

Delete or Remove Server Backup

Open command prompt

Type “Diskshadow”

Type “List Shadows all”

It will list all the shadows on the server and we can see the number of shadows at this moment is 36
Type command “Delete Shadows Oldest F:”

So if we list again we will get the new numbers of shadows

Now number is 35
You can use more options like


And also you can delete the particular shadows

Delete shadows id 36350cd8-5ae2-4ccc-a9e3-e0db64116883 — The ID of the shadow you want to delete and if you have multiple copies to delete you can use Delete shadows all — to delete them all if the only ones listed are the ones you want to delete