For anyone else having this problem, this is exactly what I did.  The NAS 
recently mounted was always mounted as /tbms, so:

root@kw157:/var/lib/backuppc/pc$ /etc/init.d/backuppc stop
root@kw157:/var/lib/backuppc/pc$ ls -d */*/f???/ftbms | xargs rm -rf
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255
/etc/init.d/backuppc start

On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:48 PM, James Ward wrote:

> 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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