Michael writes:
> > 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.
You should be *really* sure you know what you are doing when
you manually delete backups. At a miminum you should remove the
corresponding line in the backups file.
Your stats suggest you have 1 or 2 fulls per host. That's typically
the minimum number, since subsequent incrementals require the baseline
full to be kept. For example, even if you specify $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1,
you will often have two fulls because the subsequent incrementals need
it kept:
oldest -> #0 Full
#1 Incr
#2 Incr
#4 Full
#5 Incr
#6 Incr
#7 Incr
newest -> #8 Incr
This is a very common situation. If you remove full #0 then you have
rendered backups #1 and #2 invalid and useless.
The only three options to reduce the number of backups in this case is:
- remove incrementals #8, #7, #6, #5 (in that order)
- remove incrementals #2, #1 (in that order)
- remove full #0, and incr #1 and #2 (all or nothing).
I'd really recommend against manually remove backups unless you either
really know what you are doing or you are starting over after running
a temporary or test setup.
You can accomplish the same effect as above by setting $Conf{IncrKeepCnt}
to 4 or less.
But even then there will still be cases where there are 2 full backups
kept. The additional storage is much less than you expect because of
hardlinking.
Craig
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
