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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply. With this is there an easier way to delete ALL
> backups older than the newest full? While I can go in and manually delete
> with this script every full and thus every incremental it is time consuming
> to delete all 50+ of them per host.
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek <sabujp AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Yes . First list all the backups for a host :
>>
>> orca pc # /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh -l -c orca
>>
>> If you're keeping n fulls and then doing m incrementals, just delete
>> all but the last full, so from the command above it's showing :
>>
>> BackupNumber 1066 - full-Backup from 2012-08-19
>> .
>> bunch of incrementals
>> .
>> .
>> BackupNumber 1097 - full-Backup from 2012-09-19
>> .
>> .
>> bunch of incremental
>> .
>> .
>>
>> run :
>>
>> orca pc # /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_deleteBackup.sh -c orca -d 1066
>> -f
>>
>> That'll delete the first full (I keep 2 fulls, but let's say I'm
>> running low on space) and all the incrementals, then it'll run
>> Backuppc_nightly to reclaim the space.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com>
>> wrote:
>> > I am trying to figure out the proper way to remove all but the most
>> > recent
>> > backups on our system. I could just:
>> >
>> > cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/hostname
>> > rm -rf XX (for each old backup)
>> > /usr/share/backuppc/bin/Backuppc_nightly 0 255 (to actually remove the
>> > files
>> > from the pool)
>> >
>> > But is there another way?
>> >
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