On 09/07 11:35 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 9/7/2010 10:49 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> But that will happen by itself eventually - and won't really make a big 
> difference anyway if you are going to repeat the backup of the same 
> data. 

True. 
I pointed it out mostly for the sake of those people who are confused when
they 'delete' all those files but their disk usage doesn't go down. 

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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