Recently I had a bit of an error condition that generated several very, very large files on the file system of a server being backed up by BackupPC. This resulted in >200GB of files having been backe
Author: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 15:29:21 -0500
Probably the simplest way is to search for the file (and all its hard links) in your backuppc tree and ... delete them. If you have no other files that large, it's a fairly straightforward "find" co
I thought of that, but I wasn't sure if it would "break" anything. Guess I should have said so :) -- -- - Nick Bright - -- - Are your files safe? - - Valnet Vault - Secure Cloud Backup - - More infor
Author: "Jeffrey J. Kosowsky" <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 18:48:38 -0400
Nick Bright wrote at about 16:06:32 -0500 on Sunday, May 22, 2011: In general it *definitely* breaks things -- whether you care that it breaks things and whether that breakage is critical is a differ
Sounds to me like the BackupPC_deleteFile script is the way to go: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=BackupPC_DeleteFile I found it some time after posting my original qu