Hi there, On Mon, 1 Sep 2025, Steve Richards wrote:
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/37695816/
I have accidentally allowed BackupPC to backup some very large files (3 x ~8GB) from one of my hosts. I don't need them backed up and would like to get rid of them from the backup storage. If I understand correctly that would mean removing stuff from BackupPC's pool system. Can I do that safely?
Not really recommended but if you just deleted the huge files from the pool then you'd get some error messages when e.g. nightly checks were run, but I think that should be about the extent of the inconvenience.
I found a very old post (20+ years ago) about deleting from the pool but I know BackupPC has had at least one major revision in that time and I don't know whether the advice back then is still appropriate ...
Version 4 layout is very different from V3, I wouldn't rely on that.
... The "rogue" files were first backed-up only a couple of days ago, so I would be happy to delete all backups from that date if that would help.
You can safely delete entire backups using the Web interface. You can safely use the script BackupPC_backupDelete for more control to delete shares or directories, but not to the level of individual files. The script is in BackupPC's /bin/ directory. Like most BackupPC scripts, it should be run by user backuppc. If you run it with no arguments it will give help on usage. To get the hang of using it, maybe try it on a backup that you aren't especially fond of. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
