diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 29f23adf513..f1b3509ac93 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -582,6 +582,8 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7732. Fix the order of the parameters in DFSConfigKeys.
     (Brahma Reddy Battula via aajisaka)
 
+    HDFS-7710. Remove dead code in BackupImage.java. (Xiaoyu Yao via aajisaka)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-7454. Reduce memory footprint for AclEntries in NameNode.
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupImage.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupImage.java
index d2535437412..1900b4082de 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupImage.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/BackupImage.java
@@ -139,14 +139,6 @@ public class BackupImage extends FSImage {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Save meta-data into fsimage files.
-   * and create empty edits.
-   */
-  void saveCheckpoint() throws IOException {
-    saveNamespace(namesystem);
-  }
-
   /**
    * Receive a batch of edits from the NameNode.
    *