A lot of thank to everybody which answered my questions which have been asked a lot of times, sorry :-(.
I've learned from your answers that my model of BackupPC storage of full and incremental backups was too weak and that it's too dangerous to delete backups by hand. So we won't do that. The script http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups for deleting you mentioned I already found. But it deleted full + all dependant incremental backups which wasn't what we wanted. Some wanted to know, what were the reasons for my question. So here we are: 1. Problem: Accidential backup of huge files and directories (e.g. DVD-Images, backups done by a second tool we haven't been told) because some users do things they shouldn't do. These fill up the BackupPC backup-Space and it doesn't make any sense to keep them. In one case we reached the limit of 95% and BackupPC didn't do any backups then (which is a good behaviour!). True, this is a configuration problem! But if you detect it after the backup happened, how do you free the space then? My solution was to set the file size to zero by hand, but keep all the hardlinks. This is manageable for some files, but not very easy for 100 or more. 2. Problem: Incremental backups take much longer time than full backups (weekly full and daily incremental) on two of the networks we manage. Some answered that this should not happen. But some answered that this could happen depending on machine, memory, network and so on. So no real answer to that, we have to investigate it further. If we find a reason for that problem, I will post it. Again, answers from all of you were very helpful! Thomas Birnthaler -- OSTC Open Source Training and Consulting GmbH / HRB Nuernberg 20032 tel +49 911-3474544 / fax +49 911-1806277 / http://www.ostc.de Delsenbachweg 32 / D-90425 Nuernberg / Geschaeftsfuehrung: Thomas Birnthaler / +49 171-3047465 / t...@ostc.de / pgp 0xFEE7EB4C Hermann Gottschalk / +49 173-3600680 / h...@ostc.de / pgp 0x0B2D8EEA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ 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/
