In v3, typically there are only incremental backups for the past few
weeks and everything older are just fulls -- which are independent and
can be safely deleted.
In v3, there are at least 2 ways to manually delete backups:
1. (Harder/more room for error)
- Delete the corresponding full backup
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> No delete button here, is that a version 4 thing? I am still on 3.
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Yes, probably. I'm on V4, and this version introduced some changes that
allowed the backups to be more independent between them. If I
remember correctly, in V3 you need to keep the base backup from a series,
so you can't sim
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> a) a sensible plan?
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> b) safer than manually removing the backups by number from the
> corresponding pc directory, removing the files from the 'backups' index
> (and then still letting backuppc_nightly do its thing to tidy the pool,
> recovering the space)?
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Why not:
c) Press the "Delete" b
Hi backuppc users,
Disk space is getting tight on my backup server, one of the reasons is a
set of old backups for one particular host that are ~700GB larger than
its current full size (some unnecessarily backed-up data was deleted
about 2 months ago).
I was looking at manually removing the
