On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:42:23AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom 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.
Looking at the script, I'd say it just ensures that I don't delete a backup which is still neded by a following incremental. Or something like that. ;-) Thanks, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
