Am Montag 02 Juli 2007 19:11 schrieb Craig Barratt: > Matthias writes: > > Am Sonntag 01 Juli 2007 18:51 schrieb mna.news: > > > Le dimanche 1 juillet 2007 15:58, Matthias Meyer a écrit : > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > It is possible to delete a backup? In the documewntation I only > > > > find how to delete all backups from one host. > > > > But I want to delete the last backup from one host and maybee also > > > > an intermediate (e.g. backup number 5 of 12) backup from one host. > > > > Is that possible? > > > > > > you can do this deleting the adequat subdirectory in the rigth pc's > > > tree. then edit the file named "bakups" and remove the consider > > > ligne. that's all ... > > > > > > during the night the pool will be clean as necessary. > > > > Thank you: > > > > Here is a bash-script which do this job. Maybee the developers decide > > to implement this in the web interface. > > It's a little trickier than that. If you remove a backup you need > to also remove any subsequent backups that depend on it (eg, any > incrementals of higher level than the one you are removing, until > you reach a backup of the same or lower level than the one you are > removing). Yes. Thank you. The new version in appendix should do that. Additional features are: * list existing backups incl. date of backup * can delete all backups till specified date > > Also, since your script might run asynchronously, and you rename > the backups file after removing the backup, there is a race condition > that the backups file could be updated before you copy a new one. > However, I agree that's unlikely. Yes. A syncronisation between BackupPC_dump and BackupPC_deleteBackup is (unlikely or not) needable. But I didn't know enough about perl. Maybee the backuppc developer want to integrate my idea in a perl script and/or in the GUI. > > Craig Matthias -- Don't Panic
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