Hello,
how can I delete Backup IDs which aren’t available anymore?
Thanks in advance.
Please clarify what does “not available anymore” mean. The list of backup ids is enumerated from the storage.
Deleting reference to backup does not remove any data from the storage. It’s by design.
As of today there is no way to delete entire backup ID neither from web UI nor CLI. You can prune, but without using dangerous flags this will leave at least one revision intact.
If you have to get rid of them anyway — go to your OneDrive using other tools (like web access, or CyberDuck, or Transmit), and delete the folder corresponding to backup ID you want to get rid of from under snapshots folder inside duplicacy datastore.
Then clear local cache and run prune -exhaustive -a to remove remaining unused formerly belonging to those backups but now orphaned chunks from the storage.
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Thank you for the detailed explanation.
In this case, I’d better set up everything from scratch and have a clean starting position.
These steps would have resulted in just as clean state. Starting from scratch is rarely worth it. If anything, you’d lose backup history and time.
Thank you for the update.
In my case, it wasn’t that bad yet, as I’m still at the beginning and experimenting.
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