Peter Hanston wrote at about 20:09:37 +0000 on Monday, August 10, 2009: > Thank you for the quick reply! > > > > Is there any way I can delete a spesific file from all backups? > > I wrote a program to specifically do that - please look in the > > archives for: BackupPC_deleteFile.pl > > I read through some posts and you mention that the deleteFile script cannot > handle hardlinks. What would the consequence be if ex. I'm removing > fsmac.log > and it did not change between backup number 10 and 11; hence fsmac.log in 11 > would be a hardlink to fsmac.log in 11? >
The hard link issue has to do with hard links in the *source* not hard links in the backup (The BackupPC_deleteFile.pl program would be useless if it couldn't deal with BackupPC's own hard link structure). The reason that BacupPC_deleteFile.pl can't deal with hard links in the source is that the BackupPC structure treats hard-links in the source asymmetrically and makes it very difficult to identify the other files sharing the same hard-link so that the structure can be adjusted when just one of the hard links is removed -- specifically in many cases, you can't just delete one of the hard links without knowing the other files hard-linked to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
