On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, sim wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Peter Schuller wrote: > > Often I would find it very useful to be able to say "keep the N newest > > snapshots and remove the rest", which is safer. > > Peter, > This feature already exists in rdiff-backup. From the 'Time Formats' > section of the man page: > > 6. A backup session specification which is a non-negative integer > followed by 'B'. For > instance, '0B' specifies the time of the current mirror, and '3B' > specifies the time of > the 3rd newest increment.
i just found and fixed an off-by-1 traceback in this... i had a directory with 40 increments, and specifying 41B produced a traceback... but 40B and 42B were fine. committed the fix to 1.0.x and 1.1.x cvs. -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
