Re: [pgbackrest] Expiring the last backup?

On 1/24/19 7:26 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Ron (ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>> The backups partition is running out of disk space, and I need to delete the
>> only backup.
>>
>> $ pgbackrest expire --stanza=localhost --retention-full=0
>> ERROR: [032]: '0' is out of range for 'repo1-retention-full' option
> Yeah, pgbackrest doesn't ever really think you want to get rid of *all*
> of your backups. :)

It's rare, but *is* occasionally needed.

>> So, in version 2.07, what's the secret sauce for deleting that final copy?
> If this is the only backup and the only cluster being backed up into
> that repository, you could just nuke the whole repo and recreate it with
> stanza-create once you're ready to have backups again..

That occurred to me while lying in bed.  Use "stanza-delete"?

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