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Deleting a Cluster¶
To delete a cluster, choose Actions> Delete Cluster from the drop-down navigation bar in your cluster’s view.
You must have the ADMIN role role to delete a cluster.
Caution
A deleted cluster cannot be restored.
Retaining Backups After Deletion¶
When a cluster is deleted, its nightly backups are retained for 1 day by default to help protect you from accidental data loss. You can configure the retention period (up to 60 days) or disable it entirely so that backups are deleted immediately along with the cluster.
Backup retention after deletion does not apply to clusters that are less than 24 hours old, as they may not have any backups yet.
Configuring Backup Retention¶
ScyllaDB Cloud UI
When deleting a cluster, the Preserve my backups option is enabled by default, retaining backups for 1 day. You can increase the retention period up to 60 days. To delete backups immediately along with the cluster, disable the Preserve my backups option.
ScyllaDB Cloud API
Use the backupRetentionDays parameter in the
Delete Cluster endpoint
to set the number of days (0–60) to retain backups after deletion.
Terraform Provider
Use the backup_retention_days parameter in the scylladbcloud_cluster resource
to set the number of days (0–60) to retain backups after deletion.