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When agent it being removed from the Core, the window will popup with checkbox "Remove Recovery Points". This checkbox is not checked by default and removing agent without checking it, will:
- remove agent server from protection
- move all accumulated data of that agent to the Recovery Points Only section
Recovery Points Only section is containing a static data. Such data is not affected by rollups and cannot be replicated. However, it's still mountable and data can be restored from it.
Selecting "Remove Recovery Points" will delete the accumulated data for the agent, albeit not immediately. Rather, Core will mark all used blocks for deletion and will start a multitude of background deletion jobs (called "Deferred Delete") that will verify if agent disk blocks are no longer in use by other agents' Recovery Points due to deduplication.
Deferred Deletes can be seen in Core, Events section by enabling Service icon (gearbox) in top-right iconbar as "deleting index RPFS" jobs.
Note: deleting agent from protection and adding it back may generate a base image snapshot.
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