Craig Barratt wrote:
> Daniel writes:
> 
>> Now, in config.pl I trimmed down to keep only 1 full and 6 incrementals 
>> and 10 (instead of 12) and 20 incrementals for the main storage. The 
>> next day (today) I still see that there are 2 (or more) Full backups for 
>> many, many hosts. Statistics:
> 
> You will often have an additional full backup since every incremental
> forces the dependent full to be kept.  Look at the list of backups
> for a specific host.

Here is the list for one random host:

Backup# Type Filled Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server Backup Path
17 full yes 10/24 20:49 53.1 35.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/17
20 incr no 10/30 20:54 9.1 29.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/20
21 full yes 11/1 21:06 44.6 27.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/21
22 incr no 11/2 21:20 8.7 26.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/22
23 incr no 11/5 21:05 10.7 23.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/23
24 incr no 11/7 21:13 9.0 21.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/24
25 full yes 11/13 21:14 77.5 15.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/25
26 incr no 11/14 21:29 7.7 14.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/26
27 incr no 11/15 21:52 9.3 13.6 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/blackbird/27

So, as you can see, there are three full and incrementals between them. 
That to my understanding is not right...

> You mention some hosts have 3 fulls.  I'm not sure why that would
> be unless there were incrementals after each (ie: a manual full
> mid-week could make this happen), or most of the extra fulls are
> the "main storage" host.

We do not use manual backups... It is a set it and forget it type of 
thing. We monitor it, but mid-week backups do not happen.
So I am just wondering if there is a way to run this nightly cleanup 
manually? Or get any output from the backup?

Thanks for your response!

Dan

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