Thanks - that has been my experience too. However, I am not disabling backups for that device as I replaced it with an identical one Ronald Colcernian wrote at about 21:00:12 -0400 on Thursday, August 21, 2025: > If the backups on that host are disabled, the incrementals will hang around > forever. > > That has been my experience. > > Rob C. > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 14:04 Matthias--- via BackupPC-users < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > edit ../pc/<host>/backups and replace incr by full. > > It will not change the content of your backup but you should be able to > > avoid deletion of it. > > > > On the other hand - if you don't make new backups it will not be removed > > anyway - as far as your > > $Conf{IncrAgeMax} is not reached. > > > > br > > Matthias > > > > Am Mittwoch, dem 20.08.2025 um 17:45 +0000 schrieb [email protected]: > > > My device died and I am no longer to access the device or the data on > > > the device. > > > > > > I would therefore like to save the last incremental as a "full" & > > > "filled" backup so that I can mark it to "keep" it as the last valid > > > backup. > > > > > > Is there any reliable way to convert the (last) incremental into a > > > full backup? > > > > > > I imagine I could restore the backup to some free space on another > > > device and then back it up again but that would require some hacking > > > with device names, share names and path to make it "look" like a > > > legitimate backup from the original device with consistent naming and > > > paths. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > > > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BackupPC-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
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