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I was playing with settings the other day, and put my max full backups
figure up to 4, which has caused the disk to exponentially increase
usage.

I have set it back to 3 where it was before, and need to expire the old
full backups - is there any easy way to do this?


If I set my max age to 2 days, for exaqmple, what script can I run now
which will expire old backups?

Thanks in advance

Allen

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OH, I forgot - the disk is now at 98% rather than 60 as it was before
and backups have started to fail

I was playing with settings the other day, and put my max full backups
figure up to 4, which has caused the disk to exponentially increase
usage.

I have set it back to 3 where it was before, and need to expire the old
full backups - is there any easy way to do this?


If I set my max age to 2 days, for exaqmple, what script can I run now
which will expire old backups?
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Allen Bolderoff writes:

I was playing with settings the other day, and put my max full backups
figure up to 4, which has caused the disk to exponentially increase
usage.

I have set it back to 3 where it was before, and need to expire the old
full backups - is there any easy way to do this?

They will be deleted just before the next backup is about to start. The
actual storage won't be recovered until BackupPC_nightly next runs (the
following night).

You can do this manually by:

- as the BackupPC user, run:

BackupPC_dump -e ClientName

or

- deleting the backup directory (eg: the /data/BackupPC/pc/clientName/nnn
directory) and deleting the corresponding line from the
/data/BackupPC/pc/clientName/backups file.

Again, the actual storage won't be recovered until BackupPC_nightly next
runs (the following night), or you could run it manually as the BackupPC
user.

Craig


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