Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Whoops, I think I spoke too soon. I think it was only deleting items from the pool that had been cleaned out by another admin. I have attached a quick script for cleaning up older directories. It is definitely working. cheers, ski Ski Kacoroski wrote: Just upgraded to 2.1.1-2 and that see

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Just upgraded to 2.1.1-2 and that seems to have fixed it. I am running BackupPC_nightly and it seems to be removing directories this time. ski Craig Barratt wrote: Ski Kacoroski writes: Can I just remove older backups by hand then with out mucking it up. I was concerned because it keeps a

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Ski Kacoroski
I am running 2.1.0-8 from the debian distribution. I have just about written a perl script to do the clean up of the directories. I will post it when I am finished. cheers, ski Craig Barratt wrote: Ski Kacoroski writes: Can I just remove older backups by hand then with out mucking it up.

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Craig Barratt
Ski Kacoroski writes: > Can I just remove older backups by hand then with out mucking it up. I > was concerned because it keeps a record of the older backups in the > backups file. I would like to > > rm -rf 102 XferLOG.102.z You also need to remove the corresponding line from the backups fi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 10/31 11:47 , Ski Kacoroski wrote: > Can I just remove older backups by hand then with out mucking it up. I > was concerned because it keeps a record of the older backups in the > backups file. I would like to > > rm -rf 102 XferLOG.102.z yeah, you can get away with that. I think it cleans

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Can I just remove older backups by hand then with out mucking it up. I was concerned because it keeps a record of the older backups in the backups file. I would like to rm -rf 102 XferLOG.102.z cheers, ski Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:21, Ski Kacoroski wrote: At the begi

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:21, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > At the beginning of the summer I modified the config.pl to keep files > for 180 days as we were doing a major client upgrade and needed to keep > files from before the upgrade. This ended up keeping several fulls and > incrementals (good). I

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC_nightly not cleaning out the pool

2005-10-31 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Hi, At the beginning of the summer I modified the config.pl to keep files for 180 days as we were doing a major client upgrade and needed to keep files from before the upgrade. This ended up keeping several fulls and incrementals (good). I have now returned config.pl to only keep a weeks wo