Thank you! It wasn't my issue, but while reading about $Conf{FillCycle}
I realised $Conf{PoolV3Enabled} was set to '0'. I set it to '1',
performed a backup, and much time is being spent deleting old backups.
On 8/23/23 12:37, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2023, Kirby wrote:
>
>> I am running BackupPC-4.4.0-1.el8.x86_64 on an up-to-date CentOS Stream
>> release 8 system. This system has been runing since early 2015 with
>> updates, both hardware and software. Things work wonderfully, one might
>> say too good. It seems old backups are not going away.
>>
>> I have the following in my config.pl -
>> $Conf{FullPeriod} = '6.97';
>>
>> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [
>> 4, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 1
>> ];
>>
>> My understanding is that this should keep at most 10 backups distributed
>> across the last 64 weeks (448 days). Instead a I have hosts with 60 full
>> weekly backups going back over 500 days. Am I misunderstanding the
>> FullKeepCnt option?
>
> I don't know if this is your issue, but in config.pl did you see this?
>
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> # There are two reasons you will want a non-zero $Conf{FillCycle} setting
> # when you are only doing incrementals:
> #
> # - a filled backup is a starting point for merging deltas when you restore
> # or view backups. So having periodic filled backups makes it more
> # efficient to view or restore older backups.
> #
> # - more importantly, in V4+, deleting backups is done based on
> Fill/Unfilled,
> # not whether the original backup was full/incremental. If there
> aren't any
> # filled backups (other than the most recent), then the
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt}
> # and related settings won't have any effect.
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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