BACKUP_DELDUMP(8)

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💖 BACKUP_DELDUMP 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the backup_deldump page from the AFS Command Reference — yes we're in section 8, we're doing admin things, and honestly? it's giving cleanup era. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

backup_deldump — deletes a dump level from the Backup Database 🗑️✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

backup deldump -dump <dump level name> [-localauth]
    [-cell <cell name>] [-help]

backup deld -d <dump level name> [-l]
    [-c <cell name>] [-h]

so there's the long version and the short version, and both of them do the exact same thing. pick your fighter. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

The backup deldump command deletes the dump level you point at and every single one of its child dump levels from the dump hierarchy inside the Backup Database. like, it takes the whole little family tree down with it. no survivors, no cap. 💀

want to see the hierarchy before you go feral? run backup listdumps and it'll show you the whole dump hierarchy first. look before you leap, bestie. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -dump <dump level name> — gives the complete pathname of the dump level you want to delete. full path, not a nickname, okay? 📍
  • -localauth — builds a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. the backup command interpreter then presents that ticket to the Backup Server, Volume Server and VL Server during mutual authentication. 🎫 do NOT combine this flag with the -cell argument. more deets live in backup(8).
  • -cell <cell name> — names the cell where you want this command to run. do NOT combine this argument with the -localauth flag. again, backup(8) has the full lore.
  • -help — prints the online help for this command. and listen, every other valid option just gets ignored when you use this. it's the main character and nothing else gets a line. 🎬

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

this command right here deletes the dump level "/sunday1/monday1" from the dump hierarchy, plus any of its child dump levels too:

% backup deldump /sunday1/monday1

poof. gone. ✨

🔐 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 🔐

whoever's running this has to be listed in the /etc/openafs/server/UserList file on every machine where the Backup Server is running. OR — alternative route — they have to be logged onto a server machine as the local superuser "root" if the -localauth flag is included. that's the whole vibe check, no exceptions. 👑

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

go read those too, they're iconic. 📚

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This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. 🫡

and that's the whole page, bestie!! brought to you by OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27 — same manual page name, BACKUP_DELDUMP(8), same energy, just way more fun. slay, go delete some dump levels responsibly. 🦋💖✨

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