Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > 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.
The official docs have this to say: "To completely remove a client and all its backups, you should remove its entry in the conf/hosts file, and then delete the __TOPDIR__/pc/ $host directory. Whenever you change the hosts file, you should send BackupPC a HUP (-1) signal so that it re-reads the hosts file. If you don't do this, BackupPC will automatically re-read the hosts file at the next regular wakeup. Note that when you remove a client's backups you won't initially recover a lot of disk space. That's because the client's files are still in the pool. Overnight, when BackupPC_nightly next runs, all the unused pool files will be deleted and this will recover the disk space used by the client's backups." http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item_removing_a_client Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
