A host was created to duplicate the cpool from another BackupPC server. It was set to skip compression and successfully filled the uncompressed pool with ~300GB of data. On the advice of others, I decided to use rsync in a cronjob instead, so my intent was to delete this host and its data.
First I went into the host's backup summary and clicked "Delete" for each of the four backups that were listed. Then I followed the documentation under "Other installation topics - Removing a client" where it said to: "remove its entry in the conf/hosts file, and then delete the /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/$host directory." The data still resides in the uncompressed pool - this is six days after I performed the above actions: * Uncompressed pool: o Pool is 306.65GiB comprising 2149846 files and 16512 directories (as of 10/21 13:06), o Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, o Nightly cleanup removed 242189 files of size 0.94GiB (around 10/21 13:06), * Compressed pool: o Pool is 141.48GiB comprising 1570628 files and 16512 directories (as of 10/21 13:06), o Pool hashing gives 0 repeated files with longest chain 0, o Nightly cleanup removed 4949 files of size 26.05GiB (around 10/21 13:06), * Pool file system was recently at 46% (10/22 08:00), today's max is 46% (10/21 13:00) and yesterday's max was 46%. I'm concerned I may have created a race-condition when I asked the system to delete the individual backups then removed the client and pc folders before it could complete. This was the only host set to not use compression and I believe the full 306GB in pool is solely for this host. Is it safe to delete the contents of pool? _______________________________________________ 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/
