How to schedule maintenance of Storage Gateway backups

The amount of snapshots created from Storage Gateway over time is significant.

ECG allows schedule maintenance of the Storage Gateway snapshot in the same manner as regular EBS volumes.

To manage Storage Gateway snapshot from the Main Menu, select Storage Gateway.

On the new page, click the black arrow on the left to expand the volumes list for the given storage gateway.

There are two options to manage snapshots:

From the storage gateway volume menu, select Snapshots:

This opens new windows with the list of all snapshots taken from the selected volume. You can delete any snapshot by clicking Delete under the action column.

To automate this process from the menu, select Maintenance.

This opens a window where maintenance of the snapshot can be scheduled for the selected volume based on your own criteria. You can read more about criteria options here: How to schedule maintenance of Snapshots