Hello! This is the first time I read and refer to this mailing list, so if this is an old topic for you... sorry :-) I use rdiff-backup as my main backup tool in private (Laptop), public (Server) and profession and love it.
One thing I always wondered, though, is whether there is a way to "condense" old backup stages to "thin them out". For example: My server prepares daily (or nightly ;) ) backups. This is cool, because if I do something stupid, I only loose one day (compared to weekly backups, etc). On the other hand, for backups that were made weeks or even months ago, I do not need daily resolution. A perfect backup timeline for me would e.g. be the following: 0 to 1 month(s): daily 1 to 3 month(s): weekly 3 to 12 month(s): monthly ...and so on... Obviously this is scriptable by restoring the snapshots of the relevant (daily and later weekly, monthly,...) timestamps and rdiff-backup them to a new location, but this seems rather tedious and inefficient. For somebody with more insight into how rdiff-backup works, there might be an efficient and easy-to-implement solution to this idea (essentially by merging intermediate deltas). Is there already a way which I missed or is this really not (yet) implemented? Thanks and Cheers, Bb _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
