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Thanks very much for taking the trouble
to reply Vej.
Based on your information, I've now been able to free up a great
deal of space on my external drive.
Thanks again,
Leslie
On 2018-04-14 04:03 PM, Vej wrote:
Hello Lesli.
Lets start with a few definitions, which will be needed for
this:
A backup made by Déjà Dup consists of full backups and
incremental backups. A full backup is including all the
files you want to back up, while an incremental backup
is keeping changes since the last full backup only. One full
backup and all the incremental backups based on this full backup
are called a backup chain.
Files from a full backup are named something like
duplicity-full.20180104T014532Z.vol1.difftar.gpg which means
that this backup is from 04 th of January 2018.
Incremental backups give the date of the backup and the date of
the last backup:
duplicity-inc.20180104T014532Z.to.20180119T192818Z.vol1.difftar.gpg
is based on the aforementioned full backup, while
duplicity-inc.20180119T192818Z.to.20180120T201957Z.vol1.difftar.gpg
is based on that incremental backup and so on.
So if you know when you got your new laptop, you can easily find
the backup chains which are older and therefore belong to the
old computer.
Best
Vej
Am 14.04.2018 um 15:53 schrieb Leslie Katz:
I had
a laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 and used deja dup to back up to an
external drive.
I got a new laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 and began to use deja
dup to back up to the same external drive.
The external drive is now getting full and I'd like to delete
the files and folders that relate to the backups for the old
laptop.
I don't know, however, which files and folders relate to the
backups for the old laptop and which relate to the backups for
the new laptop.
If anyone could tell me how to decide which files and folders I
can safely delete, I'd be very grateful.
Thank you,
Leslie
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