Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Script to delete unwanted files from your repository

[Dominic Raferd]

Thanks for sharing this Clif, it seems a most ingenious and useful tool. 
I would still recommend that wherever practicable people regress an 
archive to recover disk space (my rdiff-backup-regress utility can help 
with this), but if this is not feasible, your script could be a life-saver.

Dominic

On 16/01/2015 00:45, Mr. Clif wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Like many folks I was happily using rdiff-backup and at some point 
> down the road I started to run out of space in my backup repository. 
> What to do? I read the FAQ, and found some other notes on Serverfault. 
> Eventually I wrote a little script to follow those instructions, which 
> could only be done by hand for the most simplest of cases.
>
> Well it does seem to work, and has saved me countless tens of 
> Gigabytes in backup space. Hope others may find it useful. Here is a 
> little page documenting it: 
> https://www.eugenemakerspace.com/wiki/Sites/Rdiff-backup-delete
>
>     Ciao,
>     Clif
>
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