Mark writes:
> My home backuppc server has filled up (500GB) and I'd like to delete
> some old backups. To free some space, in the config.pl file I changed:
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 3;
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
> $Conf{FullAgeMax} = 30;
>
> I then restarted backuppc and ran BackupPC_nightly 0 255. This took
> less than 1 minute to run.
>
> However, when I look at my full backups, some clients still have 8
> backups intact. What can I do?
Expired of old backups happens when BackupPC_dump runs, not
BackupPC_nightly. That should happen at least once every 24
hours. After that, you are right that the actual disk space
won't be recovered until BackupPC_nightly runs.
However, if you are keeping 3 full backups, and you have the default
setting of $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 6, then you will likely have 9 or more
backups per client.
BTW, you shouldn't run BackupPC_nightly manually since BackupPC needs
to ensure it doesn't run at the same time as certain other operations.
Craig
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