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Re: [BackupPC-users] Removing a Share from Storage

2012-05-22 00:22:12
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Removing a Share from Storage
From: Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 06:20:56 +0200
Hi,


> On 05/21 10:20 , Christian Völker wrote:
>> Is there a way to remove the share from the /var/lib/BackupPC folder in
>> an easy way without removing the host (and it's backups) at all? I want
>> to free up some space there...
> If you look at the subdirectories under /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>
> you'll find what looks like a copy of the host's tree of files. Go through
> those and delete the files you want to remove from backup.
>
> This will not reclaim the space right away. for that you should run
> '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255' (or wait a night or two for
> that to happen automatically).
>
Cool. This appeared to work perfectly.

Thanks!

Greetings

Christian


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