[Box Backup] Manually deleting files
Chris Wilson
boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:31:12 +0000 (GMT)
Hi Oli,
Sorry for the delay in replying.
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Oli wrote:
>> Box Backup 0.11 (rc1) will do a backup run and delete excluded files even
>> if the store is full (or at least it should, please let me know if it
>> doesn't).
>
> In case it wanted to delete excluded files AFTER the backup run, I tried
> commenting out all my servers config and try a run. I got this:
>
> Feb 11 12:12:44 io Box Backup (bbackupd)[26904]: NOTICE: 4 redundant
> locations in root directory found, will delete from store after 172800
> seconds.
> Feb 11 12:12:44 io Box Backup (bbackupd)[26904]: Not deleting unused
> entries - too early (172799 seconds remaining)
>
> Which kinda gives me another way out - I can comment 'earth' and have it
> delete it from the store, then put it back in to make it back it up
> again. Obviously this is a long way from ideal - That'll copy around 200Mb
>
> But it's only a solution if I don't have to wait 172799 seconds - ~50
> hours. Can't see anywhere to change this :-(
There is a new option, DeleteRedundantLocationsAfter. For example,
DeleteRedundantLocationsAfter = 10 will delete unused locations after 10
seconds.
Cheers, Chris.
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