#6 Old Backups don't get deleted

[Anonymous]

I am using reobackup as incremental backup for a time of 7
days.
Even after 14 days (backup days * 2), no file gets deleted.
After checking back to my backup directory after some weeks, I
had 90+ files there, taking up all space.

Why aren't the files
rotated and old backups deleted?

I am using the newest
build.
Thanks for your help.

[Lars Janssen]

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I'm having this problem too, but I think I've just solved
it. Are you using more than one configuration by any chance?

I had three different reobacks on the go, but in the conf
files (e.g. settings.conf) they all had the same entries for
these:

tmpdir = /var/lib/reoback/tmp/
datadir = /var/lib/reoback/data/
localbackup = /var/lib/reoback/backups/

This might be the problem because in "datadir" it keeps a
file archives.dat containing a list of what has been backed
up, to be used for deletions. If you run reoback multiple
times with different config files (but with the above lines
the same in each), the file gets overwritten each time.

So I've just made a directory tree like this within
/var/lib/reoback/

config1/
backups/
data/
tmp/

config2/
backups/
data/
tmp/

- and adjusted the lines in each config file accordingly.
Should work now but it'll take a while to see in practice...

Don't forget to secure all those directories:

cd /var/lib/reoback/
chmod -R u=rwx,g=,o= *

Or whatever...

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi
Just wondered if anybody has manged to fix this problem?

Cheers
Rob Gilchrist

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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In my Case the files get deleted, but the directorys the
files were stored in are still there.

They don't get deleted.

I am also using the newest build.
Can anyone help us?