Re: Purge Bad Backups?

On 02/18 03:09 , Jacob S wrote:
> But now the question - we know there are one or two backups of that
> server that have cracked files on them and the new server will have the
> same hostname and ip addresses, for the sake of the domains hosted on
> it. So, after we download any tar files we want to archive of the hacked
> stuff, is there a way we can purge those backups from Backuppc? 

cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>
rm -rf <number of backup>

this should make the files inaccessible. After the next BackupPC_nightly
run, they should be removed from the pool as well, and the space reclaimed.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com


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