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Admin panel button to delete failed duplicity backups

Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 13:16
by on4aa
An admin panel button to delete failed duplicity backups, please!

Re: Admin panel button to delete failed duplicity backups

Posted: 19 Jul 2010, 17:32
by on4aa
I will explain further:

Since there are so many files in a duplicity directory/backup, using the rm command (via ssh then su) will fail on too many arguments.

You can solve this by using for example

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find . -name 'duplicity-full.yyyymmddThhmmssZ.*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Re: Admin panel button to delete failed duplicity backups

Posted: 26 Oct 2010, 10:39
by johannes
Sorry for the late reply, but thanks for noticing! We'll do a bug report and try to get it fixed.