Hi there! Hoping to find a bit of help on this subject -- have searched around quite a bit and haven't quite seen this topic broached.
Is there any way to decide, after a backup has been taken, to fill said backup? I know the deleteBackup script is capable of filling backups, but only to the point of ensuring the data of the current deletion task is propagated to the next closest backup. For context: we have decided to change our retention policy from daily backups with a full backup taken every 30 days to daily backups for 1 week and weekly backups for the next 12 weeks. Essentially: FillCycle=0, FullKeepCnt=3, IncrPeriod=.97, IncrKeepCount=90 To: FillCycle=7, FullKeepCnt=12, IncrPeriod=.97, IncrKeepCount=7 I have confirmed on a host that can stand excessive pruning that if I just change the settings and let backuppc go run its daily dump as is, that every incremental backup which is deemed extraneous during the next dump will be pruned down to 7 -- I'll be left with the daily backups I do want, without the weekly backups because the only backups which are currently filled are the ones taken every 30 days. So basically, I'm to try try to designate retroactively that a certain backup should in fact be filled and then have some method of filling this data in. Since the fill data comes from the top, I feel like this should be possible somehow. Alternatively, my backup plan is potentially to just switch FillCycle to 7 now, wait 3 months and then change the IncrKeepCount to the desired number when it won't result in severe data loss. This requires quite a bit of patience; however, and we have a few nodes we are trying to relieve disk space pressure on, so this would be a last resort. If anyone can provide help or insight it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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