On Tuesday 22 July 2008 01:39:57 Bowie Bailey wrote: > Joe Bordes wrote: > > Bowie Bailey escribió: > > > I forgot to exclude a directory from my backup and now I have an > > > extra 115GB of files backed up that I don't need. Is it safe to go > > > into the pc directory for the backup and delete the files manually? > > > > Have a look here: > > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups > > Thanks, but I don't want to delete the entire backup, just one directory > from it.
I did just that yesterday. I didn't delete the directory, just its contents. Seems to have not caused any problems, subsequent incremental dumps appear to have worked OK. When I go and "Browse Backups" things are as I expect. I checked all the directory trees /var/lib/backuppc/pc/HOST/NUMBER, where HOST is the hostname and NUMBER is the backup number. File and directory names have a "f" prepended. Stuff with names that don't start with "f" I think are put there by "backuppc". I wouldn't touch them unless they are in the directories you want to delete. Peter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
