On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:43:54PM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote:

> > On 07/16 06:13 , Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 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
> 
> from memory, that was for deleting individual backups, not a complete host.

Carl actually understood what I'm trying to accomplish. I want to delete
all backups from that host except the last one(s).

I'll simply move them to the trash and remove the appropiate lines from
the backups file. Then BackupPC should do the rest during regular
operation.

Thanks,

Tino.

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