Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems disk usage after migrated/reinstalled from 3.3 to 4.4

[klxout <kl...@gm...>]

Hi,

Thanks, after some daus seria fusta after reinstall now purged , bit seria
that only as Min 7 daus, us possible to restrict to less than days, For
example  5 days?

Thanks

El dc., 19 de nov. 2025, 9:28, G.W. Haywood <ba...@ju...> va
escriure:

> Hi there,
>
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2025, klxout wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2025, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2025, klxout wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I have similar issues described in
> > > >> https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/418
> > > >> ...
> > > >> ...
> > > >> Any suggestion to solve this problems?
> > >
> > > First let's make sure that there *is* a problem. ...
> > > ...
> > > 1.
> > >
> > > Did you run BackupPC_nightly by hand?
> > >
> > > How many times has it been run on the nightly backup schedule since
> > > your most recent install of BackupPC version 4?
> > > ...
> >
> > I have forced executed multiples times changing time, and now after
> > 7 day seems that some files were purged but not all because I have a
> > retention full 2 days and incremental 1 day
>
> I'm sure that BackupPC is working just fine.
>
> Over on Github I've just comitted b343cb5 to add a bit more logging to
> BackupPC_nightly.  Now if $Conf{XferLogLevel}>=3 in the configuration,
> then the log shows how many files - otherwise eligible for deletion -
> were skipped because their mtime was more recent than the hard-coded
> value of 7 days prior to the time of the nightly run.  It also logs
> the number of blocks occupied by those files.
>
> From the most recent BackupPC_nightly run here:
>
>
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2025-11-19 01:00:01 Running 1 BackupPC_nightly jobs from 0..15 (out of
> 0..15)
> 2025-11-19 01:00:01 Running BackupPC_nightly -m -P 13 0 255 (pid=29902)
> 2025-11-19 01:00:01 Next wakeup is 2025-11-19 02:00:00
> 2025-11-19 01:00:02 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_refCountUpdate
> -m -s -c -P 13 -r 0-255
> 2025-11-19 01:00:02  admin : __bpc_pidStart__ 29907
> 2025-11-19 01:00:20 Started incr backup on ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> 2025-11-19 01:27:17 Started incr backup on ...
> 2025-11-19 01:46:01 Finished incr backup on ...
> 2025-11-19 02:00:13 Next wakeup is 2025-11-19 03:00:00
> 2025-11-19 02:10:28  admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate total errors: 0
> 2025-11-19 02:10:28  admin : BackupPC_refCountUpdate skipped deleting 557
> unused files which currently occupy a total of 16048 blocks
> 2025-11-19 02:10:28  admin : __bpc_pidEnd__ 29907
> 2025-11-19 02:10:29 BackupPC_nightly now running BackupPC_sendEmail
>
> 8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> There's been a suggestion that seven days might be a bit long.  At the
> moment I'm in no hurry to change it, or to make it a configuration
> option, but I'd consider PRs for the latter.  Note that EditConfig.pl
> is (not to put too fine a point on it) a nightmare.  If anyone wants
> to take up the gauntlet there's a debug version of sorts here.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
>
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