Joseph Holland wrote:
> Hi, I have been using BackupPC now for the last year or so but now I
> want to be able to keep more backups. I have read the documentation
> many times, but don't understand exactly which options I need to change
> (and to what). I want to keep the last 7 daily backups (1 full, 6
> incremental), the last 4 weekly full backups, the last 12 monthly full
> backups and 1 yearly full backup.
>
> Can anyone help me understand which configuration options I need to
> change in order to achieve this???
Full backups are all pretty much the same to backuppc - there's no
concept of which are weekly/monthly/yearly. If you are doing fulls once
a week, your 'daily' requirement will be met by keeping 6 incrementals
which will automatically force the backing fulls to be kept. You'll
then have to use some variation of exponential expiration to approximate
the full ages you want: $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [4, 0, 12] should keep 4 at
your FullPeriod intervals, and 12 at 4x that interval. If that's close
enough to the 1 yearly, it might be OK. If you meant you want one from
another year back you can't quite hit it with powers of two, but
[4,0,12,0,0,3] might work (3 at 32-week intervals). You might also want
to set FullKeepCntMin to keep some number from ever aging out even if
you stop making new backups.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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