On Mon 25 Jan 2010, Richard wrote:
>
> *How would one retain monthly backups from the LAST day of each month? Not
> all months have 31 days.
# MIN HR DOM MON DOW STRFTIME_FMT
* * 31 * * +1 year
* * 30 4,6,9,11 * +1 year
* * 28 2 * +1 year
Ignoring leap years for simplicity :-)
> *How exactly does one specify the FIRST Sunday of each month? Is it:
> > # MIN HR DOM MON DOW STRFTIME_FMT
> > * * 1 * 1 +1 year
No, it's:
* * 1-7 * 1 +1 year
> *In 'man dirvish.conf' the example for expire-rule contained this statement:
> "...the remaining nightlies are kept for 5 weeks." I was unable to find that
> in the example provided in my man page (which I suppose I should paste here.)
>
> #MIN HR DOM MON DOW EXPIRE
> * * * * 1 +3 months
> * * 1-7 * su +1 year
> * * 1-7 1,4,7,10 1 never
> * 10-20 * * * +10 days
The "5 weeks" rule is the:
expire-default: +5 weeks
line, which you omitted from your paste :-)
Paul
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