On 5/22/2011 5:48 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> 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...
>
Sounds to me like the BackupPC_deleteFile script is the way to go:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=BackupPC_DeleteFile

I found it some time after posting my original question.

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