On 11 May 2011 13:57, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not just ask the user when performing a new backup in case there's > not enough space left? Since DéjàDup already does full backups from time > to time, it could notice the user that in order to backup new data, s/he > needs to get rid of older versions until the date of a full backup > (chosen so that just enough data can be freed to make the new one).
When disk space is low, the oldest backup is already deleted to make room. I just meant it is hard to implement 'telescoping' backups where we only keep monthly backups from 1 year ago, weekly backups from a month ago, etc. -mt _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
