Déjà Dup

How to manage historical contents of backup

Asked by Brendan Hassett

I have been running DejaDup for more than a year, using a Samba server as the backup location. I have noticed that the size of the backup has been growing and I would like to remove some older files if they are not needed.

Therefore my questions are...
1. Is there a graphical utility to explore the backup files and help remove anything that is out of date?
2. If I must cleanup by hand, what are the policies that DejaDup uses to create the backup? I assume that there is a periodic complete backup plus daily increments. How do I find the date of the most recent complete backup?

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Best Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

Hello! The only method currently available for managing your backups is in the preferences. You can tell Deja Dup to only keep backups for so long. So in your case, maybe say, "only keep backups for six months."

Unfortunately, there's no graphical browser right now. I'd love to make one, but haven't had a good design / time to implement it.

For your second question, if you didn't want to let Deja Dup handle it, you can certainly delete older files. You're right that there are periodic full backups followed by incremental backups.

Full backup volumes look like duplicity-full* and incremental volumes look like duplicity-inc*. Their dates are embedded in the filename.

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Brendan Hassett (brendanhassett) said : 		#2

Thanks Michael Terry, that solved my question.