Re: [BackupPC-users] How to empty a backed-up host?

[Carl W. S. <ch...@re...>]

On 02/15 02:13 , Boniforti Flavio wrote:
> I've backed up one remote host (ssh+rsync) and now I want to empty it's
> contents (directories) without losing configuration.
> 
> How may I achieve this?

cd /var/lib/backuppc/pc/<hostname>
rm -rf *

This of course assumes that the data is in /var/lib/backuppc; and your
per-host configuration files are in /etc/backuppc.

Also note that the space won't be freed until BackupPC_nightly runs. If I
remember correctly, you can invoke it by hand with:
su - backuppc
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255

Someone please correct me if there are cleaner ways to do this, or ones with
fewer gotchas.

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