For anyone else having this problem, this is exactly what I did. The NAS recently mounted was always mounted as /tbms, so:
r...@kw157:/var/lib/backuppc/pc$ /etc/init.d/backuppc stop r...@kw157:/var/lib/backuppc/pc$ ls -d */*/f???/ftbms | xargs rm -rf /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255 /etc/init.d/backuppc start On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:48 PM, James Ward wrote: > Thanks, this looks perfect! > > On Jun 1, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, James Ward <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Recently, a new NAS was mounted on several servers and the BackupPC >>> filesystem filled before I got the new NAS excluded. What's the best way >>> to get BackupPC moving again. It's 100% full. >> >> I know there are more elaborate ways to do this, but the way I do it is: >> >> /etc/init.d/backuppc stop >> go to /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>/<backup>/subdir/you/want/to/remove >> rm -rf the files or tree of files you want to take out of the backup >> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255 >> then go to /var/lib/backuppc/trash and delete all the files in there. >> /etc/init.d/backuppc start >> >> YMMV; but hopefully this gives you a basic idea how to go about it. >> there may be something I'm overlooking; I'm sure more clueful heads than >> myself will correct me if I am. :) >> >> -- >> Carl Soderstrom >> Systems Administrator >> Real-Time Enterprises >> www.real-time.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
