Stefan Schumacher wrote at about 12:43:44 +0000 on Wednesday, June 17, 2020: > > > 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).
You can keep incrementals so long as the preceding fulls (and lower level incrementals remain) > > > > > 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 > > Hello, > > thanks for your input. I already have found out that I should not > delete the log files unter /var/lib/backuppc/pc/example.netfed.de/ > because now it shows zero backups. Good that I tried it on an > unimportant system. Do I assume correctly that I can delete the > directories themselves safely and they will not be shown in the > Webinterface anymore? You really need to understand how BackupPC 3.x works. Deleting the backups alone will not recover a *single* byte of storage as you will only be removing a hard link to the pool file. Plus it will mess up the web interface etc. I *strongly*, *STRONGLY* recommend against manually messing with deleting/copying/moving/renaming etc. raw backup directories unless you truly know what you are doing. If you want to remove a backup, best to use a script built to do it right -- BackupPC_backupDelete. Not sure if it is bundled with 3.x but it exists out there. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
