Thanks for the response.
Not really recommended but if you just deleted the huge files from the pool then you'd get some error messages when e.g. nightly checks were run, but I think that should be about the extent of the inconvenience.
Not sure I want to try that if it's not recommended but, if I did, how would I go about finding and deleting the files given that the historic guidance is now obsolete?
You can safely delete entire backups using the Web interface. You can safely use the script BackupPC_backupDelete for more control to delete shares or directories, but not to the level of individual files. The script is in BackupPC's /bin/ directory. Like most BackupPC scripts, it should be run by user backuppc. If you run it with no arguments it will give help on usage. To get the hang of using it, maybe try it on a backup that you aren't especially fond of.
OK, thanks. Would deleting all backups that included/referenced the files cause them to be cleaned out of the pool (and the space recovered) automatically, or is there a further step?
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