[BackupPC-users] Is there a way to manually run BackupPC-Nightly ?

[Julian Robbins]

Hi

I need to make some space on my storage drives temporarily so I need to
manually delete some old backups.

Is there a way of manually running BackupPC_nightly from the cmd line so
that it cleans the pool when I want ? I have 5 HDD's to work with and
want to get them all with more disk space quickly. I don't want to
change the number of full's kept, as this is just a transitory thing,
whilst we have our new server in operation at the same time as the old
one ...

I'm vers 2.0.2

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

Post by Julian Robbins
Is there a way of manually running BackupPC_nightly from the cmd line so
that it cleans the pool when I want ?

/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_nightly 0 255

this will cause BackupPC_nightly to go through the whole pool and clean up
everything. (0-255).

of course, your path to the BackupPC_nightly file may vary, if you're not
using the Debian package.