Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 20:04 -0400, Dale Amon wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:27:28PM +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: >>> Is there any way to achieve what I want, or is just not how dirvish >>> works ? >> I recommend setting your expire rules to keep one >> 'never' expire per month or whatever interval pleases >> you. > > Hi Dale, > > thanks for answering. > > I thought the third rule I use: > > # backup made first saturday of each quarter is kept forever > * * 1-7 1,4,7,10 sat never > > Is a 'never' expire rule to keep one every three months. Is my rule > wrong, or is it just not being handled by dirvish the way I expect ?
I think there's a couple of things going on. Firstly, the list of expirations you gave in your first message included expiry periods that are not in your ruleset. That implies that the ruleset you showed us is not the ruleset that was used when the images were created. So I think you've changed something, and that will obviously affect what happens. > My suspicion is that, if for whatever reason I simply don't have a > successful backup that was made on the first saturday of a quarter, Secondly, you should go and look at the summary file of all your images and see what they actually contain for the expiry time and the rule that was applied. Then you will facts to base your judgments on instead of speculation. (There's no need to view every file. You can use grep to find all those lines at once) Third, I think you're misunderstanding the implications of how dirvish/rsync works. Because it uses hard links, you really only have one backup copy anyway. So any warm fuzzy feeling you get from "having more than one copy" is illusory. If you want more than one physical copy, you need multiple dirvish vaults for each backup or some other method of making physical copies. So what you'd like dirvish to do strikes me as pointless. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
