On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:42:23AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> > we recently installed a server from scratch and renamed the old host on
> > the backup server to keep it's backups (and disabled backups
> > altogether). Now I would like to expire the old backups from that host.
> > I didn't want to just remove the directories or would that be the
> > easiest way - deleting the directories and the appropiate lines from the
> > backups file as well?
> 
> This wiki page gives a script (and patch which should be applied to it)
> which is suggested for deleting backups.
> 
> http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups
> 
> You *can* generally get away with just deleting /var/lib/backuppc/pc; and
> letting the BackupPC_nightly job take care of deleting the hardlinks. I
> believe this has been recommended against; tho I can't remember the
> specifics of why. If someone would care to refresh my memory it would be
> appreciated.

Looking at the script, I'd say it just ensures that I don't delete a
backup which is still neded by a following incremental. Or something
like that. ;-)

Thanks,

Tino.

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