-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gerald Brandt wrote: > I'm having problems with expiry though. Take this months for example. > I'll have 5 full backups on January 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. The 29th will > also be the monthly backup. Then February will be 5, 12, 19, 26, with > the 26 being month end. I usually keep the weeklies until the > monthlies are done. So, on Jan 26, I'll want to delete the Jan 1, 8, > 15, and 22 fulls. On Feb 26, I'll want to delete the 5, 12, and 19 > fulls. March becomes a new issue. When I do the Mar 31 backup, I'll > need to delete Mar 5, 12, 19 and 26 fulls.
Why expire all of January in the first week of February? That means you only have one weeks history? Why not just tell backuppc to keep 5 'weekly' fulls, which means you will always have the ones you want? > I found a delete script that can do the deletes for me, but is that the > only way? I'd hate to have to parse output to figure out what to delete. Yes, this is the hard part. Sooner or later you will probably need to find a way to expire a specific backup number. I don't think this will really work otherwise. Personally, I don't like this solution either... > BackupPC isn't meant designed to do this stuff, so I may have to script > the whole process. Ugh. My perl "ain't so good". Nope, it isn't... I don't think there is a 'proper' way to delete a specific backup either, but it would definitely require a bit of scripting, and making sure you don't 'mess it up' under any circumstance is harder. So far, I have used two variations: 1) Use the supported keep values (with various values) 2) Keep everything for ever. (Use excessively high keep values to cover at least 10000 backups). I think your main issue is that backuppc can't use block level de-duplication. If it could, you could store all your daily SQL backups with minimal actual storage space consumption. Of course, this would come in handy for plenty of others too :) Maybe someone else will have something more helpful to add. Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktfmZIACgkQGyoxogrTyiVG0gCgkS/Q7TQrX9fl3dUpX+yVrEvs D78An01sV+ZAjMM6y5YgkKkhi7MelSHV =cslr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
