On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:36:38PM +0000, Peter Hanston wrote:

> Is there any way I can delete a spesific file from all backups? For some 
> reason 
> I have a file backed up which is 50gigs in /var/log (/var/lib/smac.log) and 
> I'd 
> like to delete it from every backup that has been made.
> 
> If I go into a spesific backup number directly on the backup disk:
>  pc/db-master/57/f%2fvar/flib/fsmac.log)
> 
> Could I just simply recursively search through all backup numbers (pc/db-
> master/1-2-3 etc) and delete all fsmac.log occurances? Could there be any 
> unwanted consequences if this is done? Any better way?

It would work, BackupPC_nightly would remove the files from the pool as
well, but the backup size displayed by the web interface would be wrong.

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote a nice tool for removing files from backups
called BackupPC_deleteFiles. See
http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
net/msg12265.html.

HTH,

Tino.

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