So is there a way to run this nightly process by hand now so i can clear up a bit of space?
Thanks Rob Morin Dido InterNet Inc. Montreal, Canada Http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Les Stott wrote: > Rob Morin wrote: > >> 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....?? >> >> > the backup directories only contain hard links to the files that exist > in the pool directories. > > if the files still are referenced by other backups then they still exist > in the pool. When the files have no other hard links, and are not > referenced by any other backups (like the 200mb you freed up), they will > be deleted. > > The nightly process will clean the backups and the pool directories. You > can see the status of what was done in the pool for the previous run in > the status page of the cgi. > > Regards, > > Les > > > p.s. you only need to reply to the list, not to all, that way i don't > get the reply twice ;) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
