Hi backuppc users,
Disk space is getting tight on my backup server, one of the reasons is a
set of old backups for one particular host that are ~700GB larger than
its current full size (some unnecessarily backed-up data was deleted
about 2 months ago).
I was looking at manually removing the older backups, as it will be at
least another 6 months before they expire based on my math and current
settings, when it occurred to me that the safer option might be to just
set FullKeepCnt to `[4]` (to keep the last 4 weeks worth of full
backups, which do not have this extra data) and let backuppc_nightly do
the rest with removing the other 6 backups. Currently my full backups
on this host go back to Sept last year - in another 12 days the oldest
backup will be deleted but there's another 3 that still contain the bulk
of this old data so there will be negligible space freed up at that
point.
I was wondering, in the collective wisdom of the -users list, does
temporarily altering the FullKeepCnt schedule for this one host sound
like:
a) a sensible plan?
b) safer than manually removing the backups by number from the
corresponding pc directory, removing the files from the 'backups' index
(and then still letting backuppc_nightly do its thing to tidy the pool,
recovering the space)?
Many thanks,
Laurence
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