Hello, I started a backup, and selected 'Computer' as the drive to backup. However, it seems that it's not recognising it as the OS drive alone, its recognising it as ALL drives I have connected. The issue is, my OS drive is 1TB in size, and I've got almost 10TB of files among other drives. So I cancelled the operation.
I've added those drives as Folders to Ignore so it' doesn't happen again. But now I've got about 318GB of a bunch of 'duplicity-full' files showing on my Disk Usage Analyzer. When I go into Backup, no backup files are found, and there is no most recent backup.
Are these duplicity files required? Can I delete them safely without it breaking anything? Or will having cancelled the operation remove any created files?
It is perfectly safe (and advisable) to clear that out. Cancelling did not remove the cached backups.
If you select "Computer", that is Root (/) and so will include all in /Media and /Mnt, too. Though you seem to have gotten that sorted:
Tried running that, but received no confirmation of the command having run.
Not sure if it requires a restart to take effect, but I checked in on the folder, but it is still 318GB, and the files are all still there. I'm not sure if it's just because it's under a different directory, being /home/username/PCname.
Yes, the command must follow the actual path to the files you need to remove. If they are under a different username, you may need to have that user password.