Nick Bright wrote at about 16:06:32 -0500 on Sunday, May 22, 2011:
 > 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 :)
 > 

In general it *definitely* breaks things -- whether you care that it
breaks things and whether that breakage is critical is a different
story -- specifically it breaks the meta data stored in the attrib
files and can cause problems with filling in incrementals...

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