METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING REMOVAL OF REPLICATED OBJECTS BASED ON GARBAGE COLLECTION

A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing removal of replicated objects based on garbage collection is presented. Data objects are replicated from a primary source to a backup device. A notification is received from a garbage collection process for at least one data object replicated from the primary source to the backup device, the notification indicating that the data object should be deleted. The data object having the notification is deleted from the backup destination.