Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 19:14 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: Ugh, missed that. I thought that past FullAgeMax, only FullKeepCntMin mattered. In fact, I thought that was the *point* of FullKeepCntMin. Myself as well. Although the math will be the same in my case (since I rarely run backups

[BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So, I had FullKeepCntMin set really high, and I lowered it, and it's been several days, and yet I still have a ton of old fulls lying around. My questions: 1. When and how do deletions of the excess occur? 2. Why aren't they occuring? (in particular, is it possible that I need to completely

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-13 Thread Matthias Meyer
Robin Lee Powell wrote: So, I had FullKeepCntMin set really high, and I lowered it, and it's been several days, and yet I still have a ton of old fulls lying around. My questions: 1. When and how do deletions of the excess occur? 2. Why aren't they occuring? (in particular, is it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47:27PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: So, I had FullKeepCntMin set really high, and I lowered it, and it's been several days, and yet I still have a ton of old fulls lying around. My questions: 1. When and how do deletions of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-13 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Robin Lee Powell wrote on 2011-05-13 14:36:14 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.]: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:47:27PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: [...] My questions: 1. When and how do deletions of the excess occur? read

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup retention and deletion.

2011-05-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:09:51AM +0200, Holger Parplies wrote: config.pl commented on 2010-07-31 19:52 [BackupPC 3.2.0]: # Note that $Conf{FullAgeMax} will be increased to $Conf{FullKeepCnt} # times $Conf{FullPeriod} if $Conf{FullKeepCnt} specifies enough # full backups to exceed