Matthias Meyer wrote: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > >> Matthias Meyer wrote at about 22:04:42 +0200 on Sunday, October 10, 2010: >> > Robin Lee Powell wrote: >> > >> > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> > >> Hi, >> > >> >> > >> I have a new release of the BackupPC_deleteBackup script. >> > >> Unfortunately I can't put it into the wiki >> > >> >> > > (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=How_to_delete_backups). >> > >> Jeffrey would do that but I didn't reach him via email :-( >> >> Sorry - I didn't receive any such email. Probably the best way to >> reach me is via the mailing list if email fails. >> >> Of course, Matthias is the original owner -- I just added a few tweaks >> ;) >> >> For my own internalversion control, can you tell me if any behaviors >> changed other than adding --remove >> Note I did a diff and noticed a fair number of changes but wasn't sure >> which are "cosmetic", which are "bug fixes", which are "polish" and >> which are "significant." The reason I am asking is that I notice at >> least one change that would break the script on my >> install. Specifically, the Fedora package version stores the config in >> /etc/BackupPC while you changed it to /etc/backuppc. For this change >> maybe the path could look both places or maybe there should be a >> user-defined variable at the top of the script. >> >> Beyond that, I was wondering whether any of the "fixes" or "changes" >> may similarly work on some systems but cause breaks on others. >> > Hi Jeffrey, > > All improvements which was provided in the wiki are included in this "new" > release. > > In addition I've added: > - remove XferLOG.<number>[.z] together with backup <number> > - --remove will remove a host from the /etc/backuppc/hosts as well as all > of his backups > - (today) look for /etc/BackupPC as well as for /etc/backuppc > > All the rest from a diff should be cosmetics or changes which implemented > not from me. > > > So I would believe you can change the wiki text into: > > How to delete backups from the archive: > Put this script somewhere in your path. It includes usage information when > run without arguments. > > It will remove incremental backups too, if a full backup should be removed > where the incrementals based on. The incrementals will also be removed if > they are filled. Here is room for improvement :-) > > FreeBSD > if you want to use BackupPC on a FreeBSD system, you have to change > the 'stat' calls. Change the two occurencies of the line: > > BackupTime=`stat -c "%y" > $TopDir/pc/$client/$BackupNumber/backupInfo | awk '{print $1}'` > > into > > BackupTime=`stat -f "%Sm" -t "%Y-%m-%d" > $TopDir/pc/$client/$BackupNumber/backupInfo` > > br > Matthias
Where is the problem? More than a year ago I asked for an update of the mediawiki entry. The entry is realy outdated! Maybee someone can add me to the editor group so that I can update the entry. Send me a mail and ask me for the necessary account informations. Thanks in advance Matthias -- Don't Panic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/