Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Mine takes more tham a week Il gio 19 dic 2019, 16:50 Mike Hughes ha scritto: > Hi Gandolf, > > This is what I use to clean up disk space: > nohup /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255 & > > If I want to watch it work I'll use this: > tail nohup.out -F > > Usually finishes in 5-10

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Mike Hughes
Hi Gandolf, This is what I use to clean up disk space: nohup /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255 & If I want to watch it work I'll use this: tail nohup.out -F Usually finishes in 5-10 minutes. -- Mike On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 16:08 +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: Hi to all.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Tried with BPC running and stopped, still not working Il giorno gio 19 dic 2019 alle ore 16:34 Robert Trevellyan ha scritto: > > Did you stop BackupPC before attempting the command? I believe that's > required for most, if not all, command-line operations. > > BackupPC_nightly will run all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Robert Trevellyan
Did you stop BackupPC before attempting the command? I believe that's required for most, if not all, command-line operations. BackupPC_nightly will run all the nightly tasks. If your goal is a more aggressive cleanup than usual, you'll need to adjust your nightly cleanup configuration before

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Il giorno gio 19 dic 2019 alle ore 16:14 Robert Trevellyan ha scritto: > You can run BackupPC_nightly from the command line. I'm trying with this: su backuppc -c "LC_ALL=C /usr/local/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly -r 0 128" but it will exit immediatly: BackupPC_nightly lock_off log

Re: [BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Robert Trevellyan
You can run BackupPC_nightly from the command line. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM Gandalf Corvotempesta < gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi to all. > Any

[BackupPC-users] Force pool cleanup

2019-12-19 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
Hi to all. Any command to run manually to force deletion of "expired" files from pool to free up disk space? I'm running the nightly on a very very low schedule , but right now I have to run it to clean up as much as possible Any hint ? ___

Re: [BackupPC-users] Pool storage for BackupPC on a virtual machine

2019-12-19 Thread Greg Harris
Horsepower and redundancy. I’ve got more horsepower available on the “big iron” than the data pool hardware. Additionally, by creating a snapshot of the VM on the data pool, then I’ve got a backup of the VM on separate hardware. Thanks, Greg Harris On Dec 18, 2019, at 11:07 AM, Ray Frush