Hi,
Nick Bright wrote on 2011-05-22 23:27:58 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to
delete specific files from backups? (with BackupPC_deleteFile.pl)]:
> On 5/22/2011 7:14 PM, Nick Bright wrote:
> > Sounds to me like the BackupPC_deleteFile script is the way to go:
> [...]
> No matter what options I give it, it just won't delete anything.
>
> There is a complete void of examples, and there is no indication of what
> valid inputs are for the arguments are in the documention, so I'm not
> even sure if I'm doing it correctly.
Jeffrey? ;-)
> I've tried:
>
> BackupPC_deleteFile.pl -h hostname -n - -d 4 /var/log/maillog
> [...]
>
> But they all just give the same output - nothing deleted.
>From that example, the general syntax of the BackupPC_* commands provided with
BackupPC, and the expectation that Jeffrey will follow their conventions,
I'd expect you need to provide a '-s <sharename>' argument and probably
the path within this share as either relative or absolute path. So, if you
have a share '/var', that would be
BackupPC_deleteFile.pl -h hostname -n - -d 4 -s /var /log/maillog
or possibly
BackupPC_deleteFile.pl -h hostname -n - -d 4 -s /var log/maillog
(don't know what '-d 4' does, though; aside from that, where did you get
'-n -' from? Maybe try '-n -1'?).
You probably have a share '/', so it would be '-s / /var/log/maillog' or
'-s / var/log/maillog' instead. It really depends on how you set your
backups up, because that determines how BackupPC stores them.
But I'm just guessing. I'd look at the script, but I don't really have the
time right now. Wait for an authoritative answer if you don't feel like
experimenting (but you probably do - you've already done so ;-).
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Holger
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