Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

2015-04-15 Thread Alexander Moisseev
There is a safe way to start BackupPC_nightly immediately - via the daemon: # su -m backuppc > BackupPC_serverMesg BackupPC_nightly run -- Alexander -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develo

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

2015-04-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Mark Campbell wrote on 2015-04-15 14:37:53 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: > [...] The best way to remove ???orphaned??? files (i.e., files that do not > have any other hard links), is to run: > > su ???s /bin/bash ???c ???/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 25

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

2015-04-15 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Kris Lou wrote on 2015-04-15 12:57:54 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?]: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Dave Sill > wrote: > > > A corollary would be: how do I know that the space BackupPC is using > > doesn't include a bunch of cruft like files from systems that h

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

2015-04-15 Thread Mark Campbell
In my experience, just removing a server doesn’t delete the files, nor reduce disk space on the system, even when you’ve gone into the BackupPC/pc// dir and deleted the dir(s) that have a number corresponding to the backup you want to delete. The best way to remove “orphaned” files (i.e., files

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

2015-04-15 Thread Kris Lou
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Dave Sill wrote: > A corollary would be: how do I know that the space BackupPC is using > doesn't include a bunch of cruft like files from systems that have been > removed from BackupPC, or file systems that have been removed, ... > Somebody might have a script

Re: [BackupPC-users] How to manage disk space?

2015-04-15 Thread Dave Sill
Thanks for replies. Don't know how I missed the Host Summary page, but that's useful. Holger Parplies wrote: > > Les Mikesell wrote on 2015-04-14 09:34:35 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] How to > manage disk space?]: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:57 PM, wrote: > > > Dave Sill wrote at about 15:28