"Kris S. Amundson" writes: > I would like to purge a single file from ever existing on our back > system. How can I do this?
If it is a particular path common to all backups, you can manually "mangle" the name (add "f" to the start of each directory and file) and just rm the files. The copy of the file in the pool will be removed next time BackupPC_nightly runs. At the point there will be no links to the file. Whether the file content's are still on disk and might be recovered depends upon the underlying file system. If you want to be sure you captured every case, look at the inode number of one instance of the file and the reference count. You could do a find -inum NNN to make sure you find every reference. The file names will still be in the attrib file, but the file itself will be gone. Craig ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
