There is a script that automates this and provides some additional functionality, including updating the list of backups stored at $TopDir/pc/$client/backups
You can find it at: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 10:49:21 -0500 on Tuesday, September 7, 2010: > On 09/07 11:29 , Richard Alloway wrote: > > Can I simply delete the data/pc/<host> tree or do I need to do something > > more elegant? > > That's the first step. > To have the space reclaimed you'll need to run > '/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255' to clean up the pool > references. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ 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/
