That's beautiful! So simple. Do you think it will get added?

Otherwise, I'll just need to make sure I manually add it back each time Debian uprades its BackupPC -

easy, but also easy to accidentally miss :-(

Graham


On 02/03/2020 19:52, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
  >
  I added some simple code for v4 that allows you to mark some versions
  as frozen -- which IMO is a very important feature...
  Would love if Craig added that <hint> <hint>


--- BackupPC_dump.orig 2020-02-02 10:30:49.000000000 -0500
+++ BackupPC_dump 2020-02-02 10:34:28.955761936 -0500
@@ -1871,6 +1871,9 @@
          my $noDelete = $i + 1 < @$Backups ? $Backups->[$i+1]{noFill}
         : 0;
                  $noDelete = 0 if ( !$Backups[$i]{preV4} );

+       #Don't delete full backups that have '.save' in their root
directory
+       $noDelete = 1 if -e $Dir . "/" . $Backups[$i]{num}
. "/.save";
+
          if ( !$noDelete &&
                        ($fullKeepIdx >= @$fullKeepCnt
                                       || $k > 0
                                

NOTE: just do:
       touch TopDir/pc/<host>/<num>/.save

I would just archive the backup you want to keep to another media.
  >
  > Thanks,
  > Richard
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