Rsnapshot manually rotation

warmup · 23. Oktober 2019

Maybe some stupied question.
I´ve configured rsnapshot for 8d / 3w / 1m / 0y

After the Backup of the new macos my Backup-HD is nearly full and I want to delete some older Backups so I set rsnapshot to
3d / 0w / 0m / 0y on the gui.

Then I start the Rsnapshot-Backup manual over the Start-Button in the Gui, but the older Backups were not deleted!
How can I manage it to manually delete the older Backups to free space?

Adoby · 23. Oktober 2019

Login remotely using ssh and:

rm /path/to/folder/to/delete -rf

Or what do you mean?

Please note that deleting a snapshot may not free up a lot of storage, unless there are "unique" files in the snapshot you delete. This is because the files are hardlinked. And only one copy of each file exists and it will only be deleted when all hardlinks have been deleted.

warmup · 23. Oktober 2019

okay
Is ist posbile to delete older daily.x and weekly.x from tht commandline?
i´m afraid I delete files which are hardlinked from rsync?

Adoby · 23. Oktober 2019

I tried to check the documentation for rsnapshot. And searched online.

But I can't figure out if it is safe, or even how, to manually delete old rsnapshots.

Sorry.

warmup · 23. Oktober 2019

Thank You very much!
I thought rsnapshot did this during the normal run - deleting weekly.x folder is is set the values to 0 Weeks?

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