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?
 > > >
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