Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete old backups when disk full?

2012-01-18 Thread Zach La Celle
Thanks for pointing this out...I didn't see it the first few times I went through the configuration variables. On 01/17/2012 06:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Zach La Celle > wrote: >> I'm wondering if backuppc has some functionality where, if a backup of a >> machi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete old backups when disk full?

2012-01-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
No. BackupPC has no real tracking of "unique disk space used by backup" because that doesn't really exist. The *pool* uses disk space. Deleting single older backups will (1) free no space at all right away, (2) lead to some free space once the next BackupPcNightly runs, and (3) the amount freed wi

Re: [BackupPC-users] Delete old backups when disk full?

2012-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Zach La Celle wrote: > I'm wondering if backuppc has some functionality where, if a backup of a > machine is projected to fill the disk (or maybe if the disk is over a > certain capacity when the backup starts) BackupPC will remove old > backups?  This would be nic

[BackupPC-users] Delete old backups when disk full?

2012-01-17 Thread Zach La Celle
I'm wondering if backuppc has some functionality where, if a backup of a machine is projected to fill the disk (or maybe if the disk is over a certain capacity when the backup starts) BackupPC will remove old backups? This would be nice because, ideally, I'd like to keep as many backups as possibl

Re: [BackupPC-users] delete old backups

2007-12-10 Thread daniel
I'll try with that script and i let you know On Dec 10, 2007 11:54 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > daniel wrote: > > Hi! > > I deleted some old backups from my backup server, i deleted the hosts > > and then , i deleted the backups from /var/data/BackupPC/pc/ > > But, the problem is

Re: [BackupPC-users] delete old backups

2007-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
daniel wrote: > Hi! > I deleted some old backups from my backup server, i deleted the hosts > and then , i deleted the backups from /var/data/BackupPC/pc/ > But, the problem is my /var partition is full and i cannot run another backups You can wait for BackupPC_nightly to run or do it this way:

[BackupPC-users] delete old backups

2007-12-10 Thread daniel
Hi! I deleted some old backups from my backup server, i deleted the hosts and then , i deleted the backups from /var/data/BackupPC/pc/ But, the problem is my /var partition is full and i cannot run another backups The status of backuppc is: * The servers PID is 14793, on host backup.accelerat