Am Sonntag 07 April 2019, 17:11:47 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org: > Sometimes you want to save a special backup that for example > corresponds to a specific change (pre/post) on your system. The > trouble is that with exponential deleting there is no way to > guarantee that your specific designated backup won't be deleted > automatically later on. > > In the past, I have simply renamed the backup number to say <num>-save > which prevents it from being deleted. > But it also prevents the backup from being part of <host-name>/backups > and thus being browsable from the web interface. > > Ideally, it would be nice if one could prevent a specific backup from > being deleted (or even being part of the exponential schema) by > either: > 1. Adding a designated "LOCK" file to the top director (just under the > backun number) > 2. Prefixing the entry in the <host-name>/backups file with a > character that says essentially, skip over me for deleting purposes > but otherwise I am still here. > > Any suggestions better than my renaming of the backup tree itself? > > Jeff > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
You could use my patch ftp://www.backup4u.at/BackupPC-V3.3.2-FullCntYearly.patch and rewrite it to skip directories containing such a file instead or in addition to the first full of a year. Br Matthias PS: user/password = ftpuser/Backup4U4FTP _______________________________________________ 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/
