On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Zach La Celle
<lacelle AT roboticresearch DOT com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if backuppc has some functionality where, if a backup of a
> machine is projected to fill the disk (or maybe if the disk is over a
> certain capacity when the backup starts) BackupPC will remove old
> backups?  This would be nice because, ideally, I'd like to keep as many
> backups as possible given the disk size, not limit myself to N full
> backups per machine and guess at the value which will bring me closest
> to filling the disk.
>
> Also, if the disk does get too full, is there a way to disable new
> backups but allow it to run the nightly pooling and compression routines?

Backuppc won't start new scheduled backups when the disk reaches
$Conf{DfMaxUsagePct} full (default 95%), but it won't remove anything
that you told it to keep.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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