On 07/16 06:13 , Tino Schwarze wrote: > we recently installed a server from scratch and renamed the old host on > the backup server to keep it's backups (and disabled backups > altogether). Now I would like to expire the old backups from that host. > I didn't want to just remove the directories or would that be the > easiest way - deleting the directories and the appropiate lines from the > backups file as well?
This wiki page gives a script (and patch which should be applied to it) which is suggested for deleting backups. http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups You *can* generally get away with just deleting /var/lib/backuppc/pc; and letting the BackupPC_nightly job take care of deleting the hardlinks. I believe this has been recommended against; tho I can't remember the specifics of why. If someone would care to refresh my memory it would be appreciated. By and large, it may be safest to shut down backuppc when you do this; just to make sure nothing is going on while you're deleting files. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
