On 2013-03-30 22:00, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
> i installed and the removed backuppc, (plan to install it on a seperate 
> disk). but when i checked the file-system, the whole directory tree under 
> /var/lib/backuppc is STILL there !!!
>  
> should i just remove the tree? what else and where else can i check to make 
> sure that it is completely cleaned.
>  
> it was removed like this:
>  
> apt-get --purge remove backuppc

This problem has nothing to do with BackupPC. It's the Debian package.

That said, purging a Debian package does not and should not delete user
data. Purging deletes configuration files - such as /etc/backuppc. In fact,
the output of that apt-get command probably printed something like:

dpkg: warning: while removing backuppc, directory '/var/lib/backuppc' not
empty so not removed

Which is the correct behaviour according to the Debian packaging guidelines.

Regards,
Tyler

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