Re: Purge Bad Backups?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:27:40 -0600
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

I think that's a hint for the rest of my cleanup work on the cracked box
- don't overlook the obvious. :-) 

Thanks!
Jacob


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