Return-Path: X-Original-To: distix@pieni.net Delivered-To: distix@pieni.net Received: from yaffle.pepperfish.net (yaffle.pepperfish.net [88.99.213.221]) by pieni.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 849FD416B4 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from platypus.pepperfish.net (unknown [10.112.101.20]) by yaffle.pepperfish.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0856A41892; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:40:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from ip6-localhost.nat ([::1] helo=platypus.pepperfish.net) by platypus.pepperfish.net with esmtp (Exim 4.80 #2 (Debian)) id 1e2gXV-0006K8-0L; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:40:53 +0100 Received: from [10.112.101.21] (helo=mx3.pepperfish.net) by platypus.pepperfish.net with esmtps (Exim 4.80 #2 (Debian)) id 1e2gXU-0006Jo-9x for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:40:52 +0100 Received: from barracuda.pco-inc.com ([71.4.36.131]) by mx3.pepperfish.net with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1e2gXS-0002Gc-7u for obnam-support@obnam.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:40:52 +0100 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1507826438-0573a21bea425300001-phrF5L Received: from Loki.pcopen.net ([10.0.0.65]) by barracuda.pco-inc.com with ESMTP id 4plV1au2ByMyTrM5 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:40:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: lperkins@openeye.net Received: from LOKI.pcopen.net ([fe80::39f5:aaff:14af:6002]) by Loki.pcopen.net ([fe80::39f5:aaff:14af:6002%10]) with mapi id 14.03.0361.001; Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:40:38 -0700 From: "Laurence Perkins (OE)" To: "obnam-support@obnam.org" Thread-Topic: Changing value of keep and then purging old generations X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: Changing value of keep and then purging old generations Thread-Index: AQHTQ3jVHTxInJKnVkKwbd7mKQML/w== Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:40:37 +0000 Message-ID: <1507826430.18028.12.camel@openeye.net> References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.20.200] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7" Content-ID: <20A1E478E922D2479D94A7483D8CB75D@pco-inc.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Barracuda-Connect: UNKNOWN[10.0.0.65] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1507826438 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 X-Barracuda-URL: https://10.0.0.6:443/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Scan-Msg-Size: 1244 X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at pco-inc.com X-Barracuda-BRTS-Status: 1 X-Barracuda-BRTS-Evidence: aea-obnam.org X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=5.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.3.43833 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Pepperfish-Transaction: 8827-dd96-49eb-9554 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 X-Spam-Score-int: -18 X-Spam-Bar: - X-Scanned-By: pepperfish.net, Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:40:52 +0100 X-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (-1.9 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] X-ACL-Warn: message may be spam X-Scan-Signature: 909e24a621a695a51ad00ecc17e68015 Subject: Re: Changing value of keep and then purging old generations X-BeenThere: obnam-support@obnam.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Obnam backup software discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: obnam-support-bounces@obnam.org Errors-To: obnam-support-bounces@obnam.org On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 04:00 -0700, obnam-support-request+AEA-obnam.org wrote: +AD4- On 12/10/17 08:51, Mats Lidell wrote: +AD4- +AD4APg- Paul Waring writes: +AD4- +AD4APg- Does forget usually take a long time to run? It's been going= for +AD4- 24 +AD4- +AD4APg- hours now and has only managed 57/596 generations... +AD4- +AD4AoA- +AD4- +AD4- I have used the technique to use pretend to get the list of +AD4- generations to +AD4- +AD4- delete and then delete some of those explicitly. This way you g= et +AD4- some +AD4- +AD4- feedback of the progress and you can do ordinary backups in bet= ween +AD4- the +AD4- +AD4- cleaning of the generations you don't want to keep. +AD4-=20 +AD4- I wish I'd thought of that, I've now got a forget process running +AD4- which+AKA- +AD4- I can't cancel (locks everywhere) and I can't run backups. +AD4-=20 +AD4- If it doesn't finish soon I'll probably have to blow the whole thing+= AKA- +AD4- away and start again from day 1. If everything is working correctly, interrupting the forget process and freeing the locks shouldn't damage the repository. I make no promises though, so do run the fsck before you rely on the thing again and do verify your backups occasionally just to be sure.= _______________________________________________ obnam-support mailing list obnam-support@obnam.org http://listmaster.pepperfish.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/obnam-support-obnam.org