On Tuesday 22 July 2008 01:39:57 Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Joe Bordes wrote:
> > Bowie Bailey escribió:
> > > I forgot to exclude a directory from my backup and now I have an
> > > extra 115GB of files backed up that I don't need.  Is it safe to go
> > > into the pc directory for the backup and delete the files manually?
> >
> > Have a look here:
> > http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net/How+to+delete+backups
>
> Thanks, but I don't want to delete the entire backup, just one directory
> from it.

I did just that yesterday. I didn't delete the directory, just its contents.
Seems to have not caused any problems, subsequent incremental dumps appear
to have worked OK.  When I go and "Browse Backups" things are as I expect.

I checked all the directory trees /var/lib/backuppc/pc/HOST/NUMBER,
where HOST is the hostname and NUMBER is the backup number.  File and
directory names have a "f" prepended.  Stuff with names that don't start
with "f" I think are put there by "backuppc".  I wouldn't touch them
unless they are in the directories you want to delete.

Peter.

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