Deleting Account Data

Data in the Wasabi cloud is automatically deleted when the corresponding local file in your VMS is deleted. The local file is deleted either once the retention period has been reached or if someone deletes camera files locally.

To delete data, it is best practice to delete the source-target pair in Wasabi Surveillance Cloud (WSC). A warning message will notify you when you will have orphan stub files (in the event that you need to retrieve any associated data from the cloud before deleting the pair). As long as the bucket remains untouched in the cloud, you can reconnect to regain access to your data.

If you want to test the disaster recovery, always delete the source-pair association (Delete Source) to break the connections with the cloud before deleting any local file. Additionally, if you delete files in the cloud bucket directly, Wasabi Surveillance Cloud (WSC) will not be aware and assume that the data is still there. WSC will not replicate these files again and will assume that any local stub files still point to the valid data.

To delete a source-target pair from WSC, follow the steps below. Deleting a source-target pair neither deletes data from the source nor the target storage.

Select the source in which to delete.
In the lower left, click Delete source.
A message will request that you confirm the deletion. Click Yes.