Thanks, this looks perfect!

On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward <jeward AT torzo DOT com> wrote:
>> Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC 
>> filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded.  What's the best way to 
>> get BackupPC moving again.  It's 100% full.
> 
> I know there are more elaborate ways to do this, but the way I do it is:
> 
> /etc/init.d/backuppc stop
> go to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>/<backup>/subdir/you/want/to/remove
> rm -rf the files or tree of files you want to take out of the backup
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255
> then go to /var/lib/backuppc/trash and delete all the files in there.
> /etc/init.d/backuppc start
> 
> YMMV; but hopefully this gives you a basic idea how to go about it.
> there may be something I'm overlooking; I'm sure more clueful heads than
> myself will correct me if I am. :)
> 
> -- 
> Carl Soderstrom
> Systems Administrator
> Real-Time Enterprises
> www.real-time.com
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