> 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 backed up to the
> backuppc server that quite simply don't need to be there!
>
> What can I do to remove these specific files from all backups on the
> backuppc server? It's just a waste of space so I really need to make
> them go away.
>
>   - Nick

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" command.

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