Hi there,
Unfortunately, one of my hard drives is now full, and I would like to be able to remove previous revisions on the web GUI. Unfortunately, I do not see any such option (unless I am missing something). I have now set up the default options on number of versions to keep, to avoid the hard drive getting more and more full in the future. It may also be useful to be able to see the total size that each revision is taking up on the storage.
You can’t do this directly in the GUI, you’ll need file access to the backup storage…
First thing I suggest you do is to make sure Duplicacy didn’t create any 0-byte files (either chunks or snapshot revisions) - because if a check sees them, it assumes they’re in good nick. Manually find and delete them first.
Run a check -persist then manually delete any snapshot revision files (under /snapshots in the backup storage) - these should hopefully be few and most recent only.
Ensure no backup jobs are running and run a prune -exclusive -exhaustive to free up space. You need a little space in order to run prune -keep in the next step, so if you already have a wee bit of space and it’s literally not 0 bytes free on the disk, you can probably skip this.
Run your desired prune -keep policy.
Finally, run prune -exclusive -exhaustive again to delete the marked chunks. (Just don’t ever run prune with -keep and -exclusive at the same time.)
Do another check to make sure everything is alright.
So basically directly access the hard drive the backup in on from say Windows explorer?
It would be highly useful if this was possible in the webui. Where a user can delete a revision and see the size of revisions. I just don’t want to mess up the backup. I do have another. But if i can avoid, then I will.
Instead of telling prune what to keep, you can tell it specific revisions to delete