Rob Morin wrote:
> First off thanks for a great application & thanks for all the help i
> have received on this list thus far...
> :)
>
> I recently installed BackupPC as i had a server crash and lost some
> clients files.... i was backing up before using the infamous TAR, but
> the external disk that i was using died..... So now i installed BackupPC
> on another server till i get a decent disk array working, i only have 80
> gigs(mirrored) on this server.... so it filled up rather quickly....and
> is at 99% as i write this email....
>
> I want to simply make changes so i can have a 3 day rotation, i want to
> have of course one full backup up and then just 2 days of incremental ,
> then start a new full backup and then the 2 day rotation... and of
> course delete the previous 2 day sand full backup...so how would i
> accomplish this? it' a little confusing at the moment as i am too
> stressed to understand the conf file, i do not want o backup nothing by
> mistake!
>
>
I think these settings will provide what you need.....
$Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
$Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
$Conf{FullAgeMax} = 3;
$Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 2;
$Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1;
$Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 2;
$Conf{FullPeriod} = '2.97';
$Conf{IncrPeriod} = '0.97';
The above basically sets the following...
Only keep 1 full backup. Keep at least 1 full backup. Delete all old
backups greater than 3 days.
Keep 2 incrementals with a minimum of 1, deleting incrementals older
than 2 days.
Set the rotation of fulls to be just under 3 days, and incremental at
just under 1.
> Also is the only way to delete current backups is by hand?
>
> Thanks once again for all your help!
>
>
>
I'm not sure how to invoke a commandline to do this, but if you save the
changes as above the nightly process will cull all the old backups which
are beyond the settings above.
Regards,
Les
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