On 5/22/2011 3:29 PM, Michael Stowe wrote: >> Recently I had a bit of an error condition that generated several very, >> very large files on the file system of a server being backed up by >> BackupPC. This resulted in>200GB of files having been backed up to the >> backuppc server that quite simply don't need to be there! >> >> What can I do to remove these specific files from all backups on the >> backuppc server? It's just a waste of space so I really need to make >> them go away. >> >> - Nick > Probably the simplest way is to search for the file (and all its hard > links) in your backuppc tree and ... delete them. If you have no other > files that large, it's a fairly straightforward "find" command. > I thought of that, but I wasn't sure if it would "break" anything. Guess I should have said so :)
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