Hi Les,

> Michael Mansour wrote:
> 
> > I have servers which have multiple full backups and incrementals, but 
> > neither
> > is removed.
> 
> I don't think they are removed until the replacements are completed.
>
> > Is there a way I can just manually delete some of the backups (incrementals
> > and fulls) to start this process again? as I can't seem to do anything while
> > the disks are full and the timeout processes are not working.
> 
> Yes, you can go to the pc directory and 'rm -rf backup_number' for 
> what you want to delete.  The space won't actually be released until 
> BackupPC_nightly runs and then only for files that are not linked by 
> other backup runs.  Some of your web displays will be wrong for a 
> while after deleting things this way but it will eventually correct itself.

Ok, I have started deleting and will kick off some manual incrementals 
afterwards.

Thanks.

Michale.

> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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