Environment

• Yugabyte Platform - 2.8.x and later

Introduction 

In recent versions of Yugabyte Anywhere, you might have noticed that while performing a backup deletion from UI the status column says "Queued for deletion". What does that means? 

We will answer this question in this article.

Description

In the recent versions (2.8.x and later) of the Yugabyte Anywhere perform below steps to delete a backup. 

Steps

1.  Go to Platform UI --> Universe --> Select a Universe. 
2.  Go to Backup tab from the Universe. You will be able to see the list of backups available in the universe. 

3. Select any backup which you wants to delete and click on the right side bread crumb icon and click on Delete Backup then Delete Permanently. 

At this stage you will notice a message saying Queued for deletion in the backup page as below. 

This Queued for deletion message literally means the task has been submitted in the queue in background and the backup will delete in 15 minutes which is the default time when the Garbage Collector job run and perform the tasks which are in queue. So after 15 minutes you will see the message will disappear and backup deletion completed. 

Conclusion

So in short this is an expected behaviour as in the background this deletion request goes to a Garbage Collector which runs deletion job at every 15 minutes[1]. Which is why we see the messages Queued for deletion and that is true. So UI working as expected.

[1] Code snip which introduced the logic :

# Config for backup Garbage collection
  backupGC {
    # backup GC schedule run
    gc_run_interval = 15 minutes
  }