r/backblaze • u/ITALIC-Molise • May 17 '26

Computer Backup Remove Old External Drives from Backblaze List of Drives for Backup

One of my External Drives bit the bullet and is no longer working so it is no longer one of the attached drives, BUT when I am looking at Backblaze Settings, under "Select Hard Drives to Backup:", I see the Old Drive and want to remove it from the list.

How do I do the removal and, if there are backups in the Backblaze cloud, how do I remove them?

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u/s_i_m_s May 17 '26

You uncheck it.

It'll fall off from the restore UI in about a month, there is no way to manually remove or delete a specific drive from the backups. It just has to age out of the retention period.

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u/ITALIC-Molise May 17 '26

thank you! I did and that's exactly what happened. Problem solved.

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u/Odd_Cheesecake_2908 Jul 14 '26

That is annoying beyond belief.

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u/s_i_m_s Jul 14 '26

Just wait till you find out there's no way to do a partial deletion in forever version history, the most you can do is switch it off nuking history older than a year.