Rob Ogle wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> I believe I may have muddied the water with my original post. I had two
> issues.
>
> Issue One: The directory for "HostA" was not deleted when I removed it from
> the config. No biggie, your previous suggestion of using 'rm -rf' worked
> great. Thanks!
>
> Issue Two: For "HostB", I changed the full backup count to 1 (I have some
> reasons to only keep one full backup). The log file shows this: " backuppc
> changed FullKeepCnt in main config to ['1'] from ['4','0','4','0','3','2']"
> However, after 5 days (and manually bumping the date to dec 29th), the
> directory for HostB remains at 12GB.
>
> Any ideas for Issue Two?
Fulls aren't deleted if there are any incrementals based on them. Also,
due to the way duplicates are pooled, you aren't going to save much
space by reducing the copies unless there was a lot of change so the old
files don't exist in the newer version.
--
Les Mikesell
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