27 Jun
2005
27 Jun
'05
3:23 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:08:56AM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
[Felix Ulrich-Oltean]
I need to clear out old backups regularly, as there are several storages which are packed every night, and so there are lots of ~2G backups files around for every day.
Are you doing full backups every time? It's surprising if you get 2GB of new files every day when doing incremental backups.
I used to do it weekly, but some of the storages grow to over 4G, so I've been doing it nightly, which keeps it around 1.8G - 2.5G during the course of the day.
As Jens said, it should be safe to delete anything older than the most recent full backup. Please try the patch in this collector issue:
OK, I'll give it a try. Felix.