Holger Parplies <[email protected]> wrote on 12/10/2014 10:59:17 AM:
> Colin Shorts wrote on 2014-12-10 11:45:41 +0000 [Re: [BackupPC-
> users] How to delete backups]:
> > You might want to press <Enter> before typing
> > `/usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255', otherwise it will
get
> > deleted too.
>
> right, press <Enter> *before* the command, *not after*. ***Never*** run
> BackupPC_nightly from the command line. ***Never*** advise other to do
so.
> Really quite simple.
Why not, exactly? I do it all the time. I'm not saying you're wrong: I
just want to know where the harm might be. But you state the "never do
that" in such strong terms, I'm wondering where the disconnect it.
For the original poster: The only time I need to manually delete a backup
is when I need the space, and I need it *right* *now*. Otherwise I would
simply change the FullKeepCnt and IncKeepCnt variables and let BPC clean
it up for me. (Or where I do a backup at the wrong time and it catches a
large amount of unimportant temporary files *and* I really need the space
and I don't want to lose my history, but that's a very, very specific case
that doesn't happen enough to make this a general practice.)
By the way, that's probably the best way to handle this problem. Set the
FullKeepCnt and IncKeepCnt to 1, do a full backup and let BackupPC manage
deleting everything for you! :)
(Also, for completeness, if you delete a single backup, you better know
what you're doing, particularly which backups depend on the backup you're
deleting. Or, if you have filled-in backups (like I do), why deleting
that full doesn't actually free up any space, even *after* running
nightly... And don't forget to modify the backups file to match the
destruction you are doing... If all of that sounds like too much, simply
use the FullKeepCnt and IncKeepCnt and let BPC do the cleanup.)
Tim Massey
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