[BackupPC-users] Deleting backups does not free up disk space

2023-10-26 Thread whuut
Hi everyone, Coming from a v3 installation, I recently learned about the new --one-file-system rsync arg in v4 that caused us to have incomplete backups. After removing the arg from RsyncSshArgs and with (at that time) not up-to-date exclude lists, that unsurprisingly led to 100% disk usage in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleting backups does not free up disk space

2023-10-26 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Tobias wrote: ... in another installation, we have backups of no longer existing hosts that cannot be simply deleted. ... If I understand correctly, and you mean that these cannot be deleted because they are your only copies of the data from those hosts, then th

Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleting backups does not free up disk space

2023-10-26 Thread whuut
Hi Ged, Thank you for your answer. If I understand correctly, and you mean that these cannot be deleted because they are your only copies of the data from those hosts, then that means that they are *not* backups. They're at risk of loss if they're the only copies. Yes, you are right – that's