On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 21:56 -0800, Craig Barratt wrote:
> Rich Duzenbury writes:
>
> > I've mistakenly allowed a bunch of really large files to get backed up
> > to my backuppc server, which I did not intend. They come from one
> > workstation. Now my pool is at about 96%. I've excluded the directory
> > where they reside to solve things going forward, but now I need to clear
> > them out of the backuppc machine to free up space.
> >
> > What is the best strategy to purge these files from the backuppc
> > machine?
>
> Manually remove the large files (or parent directories) from under
> the pc/CLIENT/nnn directory or directories. After BackupPC_nightly
> runs the pool space will be reclaimed.
>
> Craig
>
The following worked quite well, went from 96% to 60%. Thanks!
cd pc/CLIENT
killmyth *
(killmyth)
#!/bin/bash
for file
do
if [ -d $file ]
then
dir="$file/f%2f/fvar/flib/fmythtv"
if [ -d $dir ]
then
echo $dir
rm -Rf $dir
fi
fi
done
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