How long should a snapshot deletion take?

Hi @Missy Main ,

I think it just takes a very long time. At 90 minutes into the delete I left with it still running. 2 hours later I checked and it had completed.

Thanks for the pointers regarding snapshot maintenance. Always a good reminder!

Hey @rcreasy, I am actually about to do the same thing.  Curious what size your snapshot was, just so I can plan accordingly.

Thanks!

It was just under 50G. I am deleting a second snapshot about the same size. I can post a more accurate time when it finishes.

Also, I did watch the system monitor during the deletion and a good bit of resources was used. Be aware that the points made by @Missy Main about the possible impact on performance.

@rcreasy Very much appreciated.  I’m only sitting on 10GB, so it shouldn’t be too bad, but still good to know what to expect.

For future visitors to this post - the 50G Snapshot took 2 hours and 7 minutes.

This seems like a silly thing to be as resource intensive as it is. Our snapshots are well over 100 Gb at this point, and that means any maintenance we do to delete the snapshots takes hours and hours. We could do this same thing quickly in SQL. Is this a limitation of the cloud? 

I am interested to know why this is so slow. I did a lot of maintenance of old snapshots and tenants today. Overall it has taken hours. Specifically, I just deleted two export ready snapshots that were originally around 13GB total and zipped down to around 700MB. It took 25 minutes.