On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Peter Schuller wrote: > I am always reluctant to use --remove-older-than in scripts because > there is always the possibility that the clock is screwed up for > whatever reason and it decides to remove all reverse diffs. Often I > would find it very useful to be able to say "keep the N newest > snapshots and remove the rest", which is safer.
this is also useful when a few nightly cron jobs fail... because then expiring by date means you'll end up with less than N increments... -dean _______________________________________________ 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
