In v3, typically there are only incremental backups for the past few
weeks and everything older are just fulls -- which are independent and
can be safely deleted.
In v3, there are at least 2 ways to manually delete backups:
1. (Harder/more room for error)
- Delete the corresponding full backup directories in the PC tree
(assuming no dependent incrementals)
- Also delete the corresponding XferLOGs
- Edit the 'backups' file line to delete the corresponding numbered
backup line.
2. Use the CLI routine BackupPC_deleteBackup written by Matthias
Meyer. It's an old script and not sure if it has been maintained.
I made some light edits to it in the past but haven't touched it
since 2013.
Guillermo Rozas wrote at about 14:14:07 -0300 on Friday, October 9, 2020:
> >
> > No delete button here, is that a version 4 thing? I am still on 3.
> >
>
> Yes, probably. I'm on V4, and this version introduced some changes that
> allowed the backups to be more independent between them. If I
> remember correctly, in V3 you need to keep the base backup from a series,
> so you can't simply remove anything you like.
>
> I would say that in V3 the safest thing to do is to temporarily reduce the
> number of backups to keep (both full and incremental), and leave BakupPC to
> do its thing for a couple of days.
>
> Regards,
> Guillermo
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