On 08/22/2011 02:26 PM, Maarten Bezemer wrote:
Likewise, if a file hasn't been changed for 3 months and it is changed today,
but I only want to keep 1 month of history, I can NOT simply ditch the 3-months
old version. Maybe it wasn't changed for all these months, but it is still
yesterday's version and has to be kept in history for the coming month minus 1
day...
If that old file is changed today, then what is kept is today's version
(the mirror) and a diff to reconstruct what the file was yesterday. You
can indeed simply ditch any history older than 1 month. In fact, that
"three-months-old" version _did_ get discarded as soon as you made
today's backup. The only thing kept showing that the file was actually
old is the timestamp in the mirror_metadata files.
--
Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.
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