On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:07:26AM -0700, Craig Barratt wrote:
> > Carl actually understood what I'm trying to accomplish. I want to delete
> > all backups from that host except the last one(s).
>
> You don't need to do this manually.
>
> You should be able to achieve what you want just by setting:
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
> $Conf{FullAgeMax} = 90;
> $Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 1;
> $Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 90;
>
> (so that only, eg, 1 full/incr backup is kept once they are older
> than 90 days), or an alternative is to just force a single full
> or incremental for just this host in the per-PC config file:
>
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
> $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 1;
>
> Even when backups are disabled, expiry checking is still done
> (once per day), so within a day you should see the extra backups
> get removed.
Ah, thanks! I just figured out that this was exactly the question I was
about to ask at the beginning... I just got distracted somehow. :-(
I'll just set $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1; and look what BackupPC does.
Thanks a lot!
Tino.
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