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Why can't I delete this recovery point?

Immutability, legal hold, or the deletion queue is doing its job - here is which one and what it means.

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The Short Answer

Three protections can block deletion, and each is intentional.

Immutability (retain-until)

Backups written under repository immutability carry a retain-until time. The recovery point cannot be deleted before that time passes, in governance or compliance mode as chosen by the protection pattern.

Legal hold

A hold on the repository prevents affected backups from being deleted by retention, cleanup, or manual deletion until the hold is released.

Already soft-deleted

Deletion is soft first: the recovery point sits in the Recovery Point Deletion Queue during its grace period, where it can still be recovered. Final deletion happens when the grace period ends.

What To Do

Check the recovery point's protection state in the GUI. If it shows a retain-until time or legal hold, deletion is blocked by policy until that protection ends - by design, that cannot be bypassed from the deletion workflow.