Hi there,
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2025, Ronald Colcernian wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, Matthias--- via BackupPC-users wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
My device died and I am no longer to access the device or the data on
the device.
I would therefore like to save the last incremental as a "full" &
"filled" backup so that I can mark it to "keep" it as the last valid
backup.
Is there any reliable way to convert the (last) incremental into a
full backup?
I imagine I could restore the backup to some free space on another
device and then back it up again but that would require some hacking
with device names, share names and path to make it "look" like a
legitimate backup from the original device with consistent naming and
paths.
edit ../pc/<host>/backups and replace incr by full.
It will not change the content of your backup but you should be able to
avoid deletion of it.
On the other hand - if you don't make new backups it will not be removed
anyway - as far as your
$Conf{IncrAgeMax} is not reached.
If the backups on that host are disabled, the incrementals will hang around
forever.
That has been my experience.
Here's an extract from my config.pl:
8<------------------------------------------------------------
$Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 6;
$Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1;
$Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 30;
8<------------------------------------------------------------
I have several machines which haven't been backed up for years as they
haven't been switched on in all that time, but which are still listed
in /etc/BackupPC/hosts. Picking one of them more or less at random:
8<------------------------------------------------------------
This PC is used by backuppc.
Last email sent to backuppc was at 2025-08-22 05:14, subject "BackupPC: no
recent backups on tornado".
Last status is state "idle" (no ping) as of 2025-08-22 14:00.
Last error is "no ping response from tornado".
Pings to tornado have failed 45258 consecutive times.
...
...
Backup# Type Filled Level Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server Backup Path
25 incr yes 1 2020-02-20 22:05 7.7 2009.6 /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/25
24 incr no 1 2020-02-19 22:06 7.7 2010.6
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/24
22 full yes 0 2020-02-17 22:05 135.1 2012.6
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/22
16 full yes 0 2020-02-10 02:57 135.2 2020.4
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/16
13 full yes 0 2019-12-06 20:08 156.5 2085.7
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/13
6 full yes 0 2019-11-29 20:09 170.7 2092.7
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/6
0 full yes 0 2019-11-22 13:12 1058.6 2100.0
/var/lib/BackupPC/pc/tornado/0
8<------------------------------------------------------------
Choosing the most recent backup because it was a filled incremental I
restored a fourteen-year-old notice from the UK tax office which was
last backed up in February 2020. It restored just fine.
Jeff, I think that as long as the dead machine stays dead, you might
not actually need to do anything. :)
--
73,
Ged.
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