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Delete Node Data from a Data Store

As a storage administrator, you may want to delete backed up node data from a data store to free up space and effectively manage your storage space. Arcserve UDP lets you select the node data in a data store and delete it. You can select multiple nodes in a data store. You can delete any type of node data including the encrypted and deduplicated data. The data store should be in the running state when you start this job, this job is called the Purge job.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Console, click the resources tab.
2. Click the data store that contains the node data that you want to delete.
3. The Recovery Points Summary page is displayed.
4. Select the node that you want to delete.
5. Click Actions, Delete.

   Note: To delete multiple nodes from a data store, press the Ctrl or Shift key and select the nodes, then click Action, Delete.

6. Confirm that you want to delete the node data.

The purge job is initiated and the node data is deleted from the data source. You can see the status of purge job from Recent Events and logs.