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Re: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists : huge !

2008-05-07 14:04:10
Subject: Re: /var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists : huge !
From: FM <dist-list AT LEXUM.UMontreal DOT CA>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 12:48:28 -0400
Tx for the reply,
What is strange is that some files are several months old.

Does Amanda also need these old ones ?

Regards,

Paul Bijnens wrote:
On 2008-05-07 17:44, FM wrote:
Hello,
Is it safe to do some clean up in this folder ?

No.  It's the list of statefiles, which gnutar uses to decide
if a file should be in the incremental backup.

Erasing them (or getting them out of sync) will result in incrementals
be much larger than normal.