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My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don want/need backed up. How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?

April 26, 2017backup files realized remove volume

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My backup set contains some files that I just realized I don want/need backed up. How do I remove them from the backup volume to save space?

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The only official way to remove files from an rdiff-backup repository is by letting them expire using the –remove-older-than option. Deleting increments from the rdiff-backup-data directory will prevent you from recovering those files, but shouldn’t prevent the rest of the repository from being restored.