var very full

Hi,
I am running netbsd 3.0 on i386.
I  notice var is almost 50% of my 14G.
In var I noticed a backups directory with etc, and var in it.
What is the backups being used for?
How can I clean up var ie. remove old files without breaking anything.

thanks,
Radhika


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