Hi there,
On Mon, 1 Sep 2025, Steve Richards wrote:
https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/message/37695816/
I have accidentally allowed BackupPC to backup some very large files (3
x ~8GB) from one of my hosts. I don't need them backed up and would like
to get rid of them from the backup s
Hello Steve,
There are some differences in storage layout between BackupPC V3 and V4.
Because this you can't
apply a 20 year old documentation 😁️.
In BackupPC V4 all files are stored only once in ../pool/??/??/ or in
../cpool/??/??/.
You can delete this file in [c]pool but you will harvest on "
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,
I have accidentally allowed BackupPC to backup some very large files (3
x ~8GB) from one of my hosts. I don't need them backed up and would like
to get rid of them from the backup storage. If I understand correctly
that would mean removing stuff from BackupPC's pool system. Can I do
that safely
