Thanks for the configs, i added them in just now and did a restart of
backuppc .... but a weird thing i did a du -skh on a backed up dir in
backup session 3(the full backup) it said it was 1.6 gigs, but when i
did a rm -rf on that dir i gained only about 200 megs back but all te
files in that dir were gone? any idea? are these only links to the real
files somewhere else? i hope the backup will still delete these files on
the next run as per config....??
Thanks again for all your help!
Rob Morin
Dido InterNet Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Http://www.dido.ca
514-990-4444
Les Stott wrote:
> Rob Morin wrote:
>
>> First off thanks for a great application & thanks for all the help i
>> have received on this list thus far...
>> :)
>>
>> I recently installed BackupPC as i had a server crash and lost some
>> clients files.... i was backing up before using the infamous TAR, but
>> the external disk that i was using died..... So now i installed BackupPC
>> on another server till i get a decent disk array working, i only have 80
>> gigs(mirrored) on this server.... so it filled up rather quickly....and
>> is at 99% as i write this email....
>>
>> I want to simply make changes so i can have a 3 day rotation, i want to
>> have of course one full backup up and then just 2 days of incremental ,
>> then start a new full backup and then the 2 day rotation... and of
>> course delete the previous 2 day sand full backup...so how would i
>> accomplish this? it' a little confusing at the moment as i am too
>> stressed to understand the conf file, i do not want o backup nothing by
>> mistake!
>>
>>
>>
> I think these settings will provide what you need.....
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
> $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
> $Conf{FullAgeMax} = 3;
>
> $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 2;
> $Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1;
> $Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 2;
>
> $Conf{FullPeriod} = '2.97';
>
> $Conf{IncrPeriod} = '0.97';
>
> The above basically sets the following...
>
> Only keep 1 full backup. Keep at least 1 full backup. Delete all old
> backups greater than 3 days.
> Keep 2 incrementals with a minimum of 1, deleting incrementals older
> than 2 days.
> Set the rotation of fulls to be just under 3 days, and incremental at
> just under 1.
>
>
>
>> Also is the only way to delete current backups is by hand?
>>
>> Thanks once again for all your help!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure how to invoke a commandline to do this, but if you save the
> changes as above the nightly process will cull all the old backups which
> are beyond the settings above.
>
> Regards,
>
> Les
>
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