Yes, that is probably it. I don't think my files change that much. Thanks for the speedy responses :) ____________________________________________ David Williams -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Clearing old backups
On 05/23 01:00 , David Williams wrote: > I seem to be having a problem with space being cleared when old backups are > removed. For example, I just changed my config files for the 2 hosts I am > backing up to only keep 2 full backups (instead of 3) and 6 incremental > backups (instead of 14). When backuppc ran last night I can see in the log > files that it removed/cleared a bunch of incremental and full backs and I > can also see that those directories are gone from my backup hard drive. > However, when I do a df it still shows that my backup drive is 91% full L > I've some postings on this before and I thought that this removing of > incremental and full backups would regain some space. If your files aren't changing that much (and if they're just documents and the like, they're probably changing less than you think in terms of size bytewise); you might not have that much space used by your incrementals. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/815 - Release Date: 5/22/2007 3:49 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
