On 16/6/20 21:29, Stefan Schumacher wrote:
Hello,
I use Backuppc to backup VMs running mostly Webservers and a few custom
services. As everyone knows, Websites have a lifetime and at a certain
point the customer wishes for the site to be taken offline. We have one
Backuppc which we use for one big, special customer who wants a
FullKeepCnt of 4,0,12,0,0,0,10.
Now I have multiple websites which for which I have deactivated the
backup, but which still have multiple full and incremental backups
stored - up to 17 full backups to be exact.
Is there a way to delete all but the latest full backup and still be be
able to restore the website on demand? Is this technically possible or
will this clash with the pooling and deduplication functions of
backuppc? How should I proceed? I am still using Backuppc 3.3, because
of problems with backuppc4. (No need to go into details here)
Yes, with backuppc 3.3, you can safely delete any incremental and full
prior to the full backup that you want to keep. You can't just keep the
latest incremental though (there are some options if that is what you
really need).
Keep in mind though, that:
a) websites tend to be a lot of text (php, html, css, etc) which all
compresses really well
b) website content may not change a lot, and with the dedupe, you may
not save a lot of space anyway
Just my comments, you might be talking about a website like youtube with
mostly video content, and massive amounts of it, so YMMV.
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