On 5/22/2011 3:29 PM, Michael Stowe wrote:
>> 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.
>
I thought of that, but I wasn't sure if it would "break" anything. Guess 
I should have said so :)

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