Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:

> Matthias Meyer wrote at about 22:04:42 +0200 on Sunday, October 10, 2010:
>  > Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>  > 
>  > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote:
>  > >> Hi,
>  > >> 
>  > >> I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup script.
>  > >> Unfortunately I can't put it into the wiki
>  > >>
>  >
(http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups).
>  > >> Jeffrey would do that but I didn't reach him via email :-(
> 
> Sorry - I didn't receive any such email. Probably the best way to
> reach me is via the mailing list if email fails.
> 
> Of course, Matthias is the original owner -- I just added a few tweaks
> ;)
> 
> For my own internalversion control, can you tell me if any behaviors
> changed other than adding --remove
> Note I did a diff and noticed a fair number of changes but wasn't sure
> which are "cosmetic", which are "bug fixes", which are "polish" and
> which are "significant." The reason I am asking is that I notice at
> least one change that would break the script on my
> install. Specifically, the Fedora package version stores the config in
> /etc/BackupPC while you changed it to /etc/backuppc. For this change
> maybe the path could look both places or maybe there should be a
> user-defined variable at the top of the script.
> 
> Beyond that, I was wondering whether any of the "fixes" or "changes"
> may similarly work on some systems but cause breaks on others.
> 
Hi Jeffrey,

All improvements which was provided in the wiki are included in this "new"
release.

In addition I've added:
- remove XferLOG.<number>[.z] together with backup <number>
- --remove will remove a host from the /etc/backuppc/hosts as well as all of
his backups
- (today) look for /etc/BackupPC as well as for /etc/backuppc

All the rest from a diff should be cosmetics or changes which implemented
not from me.


So I would believe you can change the wiki text into:

How to delete backups from the archive:
Put this script somewhere in your path. It includes usage information when 
run without arguments.

It will remove incremental backups too, if a full backup should be removed 
where the incrementals based on. The incrementals will also be removed if 
they are filled. Here is room for improvement :-)

FreeBSD
if you want to use BackupPC on a FreeBSD system, you have to change 
the 'stat' calls. Change the two occurencies of the line: 

        BackupTime=`stat -c "%y" 
$TopDir/pc/$client/$BackupNumber/backupInfo | awk '{print $1}'`

into 

        BackupTime=`stat -f "%Sm" -t "%Y-%m-%d" 
$TopDir/pc/$client/$BackupNumber/backupInfo`

br
Matthias
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