Not the solutions that you're looking for, but maybe half-way there:
- for new backups, you could create a "new" host with the same
connection configuration (but a different name), and then configure it
to do only manual backups ($Conf{BackupsDisable} = 1) with no
expiration policy set for them ($Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1000,
$Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1000). It's not automatic, but at least all
the data is already on the server so there is no extra space required.
- for old backups, you could copy the full configuration and backup
tree for the host, rename it so you have a duplicate (both in the
configuration files and the root tree for the backup), and delete the
extra backups you don't need from the web interface. Probably only
valid on V4, where the "backup tree" only contains a bunch of files
with references to the actual files. Check
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/BackupPC.html#Storage-layout to
track what you would need to copy, and of course test it before ;)
Regards,
Guillermo
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:54 PM Graham Seaman <gra...@theseamans.net> wrote:
>
> Is the idea that incompatible with the way it works? I haven't tried looking
> at the code yet, maybe I should. I was hoping there was already an option to
> mark one backup out as exceptional.
>
> Several people have suggested making a backup elsewhere, but I would like to
> keep everything on the same system I'm backing up to - I guess I could add
> another drive for historical backups, but its also handy to have the backuppc
> frontend to use to look for files.
>
> Some have also suggested increasing the number of backups per host, but I
> don't have the space to do that - the oldest backup I have is 2013, so that
> would be quite a long history.
>
> Graham
>
> On 02/03/2020 14:20, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman <gra...@theseamans.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to
>>> be deleted. Is that possible? I can't find any mention of this in the docs.
>
>
> I don't think it's possible to mark one specific backup to keep, it's not
> really part of the way BackupPC is designed to work.
>
> I would just archive the backup you want to keep to another media.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
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