Data Domain: upgrade blocking issue please wait for background deletion

Summary: When attempting a DDOS upgrade, you might experience a blocking issue for cloud background deletion.

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Instructions

When attempting a DDOS upgrade, you might get this blocking issue from the precheck:

CRITICAL Background deletion is running. Upgrade can not proceed. Please wait for background
deletion to complete or stop it"

This blocking issue is happening because the cloud background deletion will run potentially for a long time after a cloud cleaning has finished.

You can wait for it to finish which can take a while. Or stop it with:

# cloud clean background-delete stop

If you do manually stop it, you must start it again after the upgrade finishes with:

# cloud clean background-delete start
Important: If you do not start it again, it stays disabled and you do not see space reclaimed with the cloud cleanings.

 

Affected Products

Data Domain
Article Properties
Article Number: 000294664
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2025
Version:  2
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