Ah, okay- so, if that file is quite large it'll contain a lot of history which will take some time to repopulate.
If it turns out that one does need removing then I guess the issue is indeed that stopping the service may fail the cluster over as the backup is seen as a cluster resource... on the installation notes here it does seem that we recommend a policy to restart it on the *current* node though, rather than failing over, so you may be OK. The other thing is whether you can temporarily remove / ignore the SQL Backup service from the clustering side of things. I'd test this out myself, but unfortunately I don't have a cluster here to try it on![Sad]()
If it turns out that one does need removing then I guess the issue is indeed that stopping the service may fail the cluster over as the backup is seen as a cluster resource... on the installation notes here it does seem that we recommend a policy to restart it on the *current* node though, rather than failing over, so you may be OK. The other thing is whether you can temporarily remove / ignore the SQL Backup service from the clustering side of things. I'd test this out myself, but unfortunately I don't have a cluster here to try it on
