* Charles Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-01]: > Ben Escoto wrote: > >For the people that voted for repository editing, what did you want > >exactly? > As for me, I want the ability to merge old increments, such that beyond > a given point I can abandon daily increments and store only weekly > increments; and beyond that only monthly. As the dataset I work with has > frequent enough changes that the same regions will be modified multiple > times during the course of a week, such combination will indeed decrease > (in some cases nontrivially) the amount of data being archived. > > >Also more generally, why do you want to edit an existing repository? > >Is it to save disk space? > > > Yes. I'm storing backups from potentially a very large number of remote > systems, and space is very much a potential issue.
Ditto - to both points bove. (I didn't vote though...) Hans _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
