Re: [BackupPC-users] How to purge backups for a host

There is a script that automates this and provides some additional
functionality, including updating the list of backups stored at
$TopDir/pc/$client/backups

You can find it at:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups


Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 10:49:21 -0500 on Tuesday, September 7, 
2010:
 > On 09/07 11:29 , Richard Alloway wrote:
 > > Can I simply delete the data/pc/<host> tree or do I need to do something
 > > more elegant?
 > 
 > That's the first step.
 > To have the space reclaimed you'll need to run
 > '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255' to clean up the pool
 > references.
 > 
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 > Carl Soderstrom
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 > Real-Time Enterprises
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