Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups

BackupPC does not as far as I know have scripts or commands yet to actually remove backup from the pool.

To remove bckups you need to get into the script.

Solution

cd /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<client>/
ls
rm -fR <backup_number> /usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255

Check space reclaimed with df.

You still need to remove a statistic line, otherwise you will see it in your web interface. To do that:

nano /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<client>/backups
With ctrl+k you can remove the line with <backup_number>

done..

On 10 December 2014 at 11:04, lanceh1412-business AT yahoo.co DOT uk <lanceh1412-business AT yahoo.co DOT uk> wrote:

Hi,

How do you delete backups? I've been messing around with lots of different hosts trying to work out how to use the software and I want to get rid of all the unwanted backups.

My bin has the following scripts

BackupPC BackupPC_fixupBackupSummary BackupPC_tarCreate
BackupPC_archive BackupPC_link BackupPC_tarExtract
BackupPC_archiveHost BackupPC_nightly BackupPC_tarPCCopy
BackupPC_archiveStart BackupPC_restore BackupPC_trashClean
BackupPC_attribPrint BackupPC_sendEmail BackupPC_zcat
BackupPC_dump BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_zipCreate

There is no BackupPC_delete whch I have seen mentioned in the archive. I'm using version 3.2.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

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