availability group synchronization shared network location - can files be safely deleted?

  • I have a SQL2012 AlwaysOn availability Group which is running well. When adding databases to the group I select the FULL option for the initial data synchronization, using a network share. I have now realized that this shared location still contains the backup files used in the initial synchronization. As the databases are now in the availability group is there any reason I can not delete the files in the network share?

    Thanks in advance.

  • Nope, unless you need the backups for something else i.e. rollback to a previous SQL version you may have migrated from, or to do the initialization again from the same backup.

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