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Re: [BackupPC-users] How to delete backups
2014-12-10 11:53:40
Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote on 12/10/2014
10:59:17 AM:
> Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 11:45:41 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-
> users] How to delete backups]:
> > You might want to press <Enter> before typing
> > `/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255', otherwise it
will get
> > deleted too.
>
> right, press <Enter> *before* the command, *not after*. ***Never***
run
> BackupPC_nightly from the command line. ***Never*** advise other to
do so.
> Really quite simple.
Why not, exactly? I do it all the time. I'm
not saying you're wrong: I just want to know where the harm might
be. But you state the "never do that" in such strong terms,
I'm wondering where the disconnect it.
For the original poster: The only time I need
to manually delete a backup is when I need the space, and I need it *right*
*now*. Otherwise I would simply change the FullKeepCnt and IncKeepCnt
variables and let BPC clean it up for me. (Or where I do a backup
at the wrong time and it catches a large amount of unimportant temporary
files *and* I really need the space and I don't want to lose my history,
but that's a very, very specific case that doesn't happen enough to make
this a general practice.)
By the way, that's probably the best way to handle
this problem. Set the FullKeepCnt and IncKeepCnt to 1, do a full
backup and let BackupPC manage deleting everything for you! :)
(Also, for completeness, if you delete a single backup,
you better know what you're doing, particularly which backups depend on
the backup you're deleting. Or, if you have filled-in backups (like
I do), why deleting that full doesn't actually free up any space, even
*after* running nightly... And don't forget to modify the backups
file to match the destruction you are doing... If all of that sounds
like too much, simply use the FullKeepCnt and IncKeepCnt and let BPC do
the cleanup.)
Tim Massey
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