10 years ago
Removing File from Backups per Legal Order
Is there a way to extract a file from backup sets permanently? I don't want to be able to recover the file ever but can't lose the older backups.
The only workaround I know would be to do a re-directed restore of your data files in that backup set. Then delete the desired file, or create a backup job with the proper exclusion, and then re-backup all the files. Of course, this will now appear to be a much newer backup than the original. Then the original backup could be destroyed or the tape overwritten...
For a small number of backups, this might be worth doing. If you have a large number of backups to clean, this would be very time consuming.