[Nssbackup-team] [Bug 913827] Re: should delete old backups, then create new / not enough space on media
I would suggest a config option like 'remove older backups to free space'. That would work great as well in combination with the 'logarithmic' cleaning, because you will only loose your oldest backup when your backup disk is (nearly) full. You might also want to add an option to 'keep at least # full backups', which will cause sbackup to fail if there really is no space left. This would prevent you from having only the latest backup left in case the new backup is unexpectedly large. Seems like this would not be much work to implement - anyone? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is subscribed to sbackup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913827 Title: should delete old backups, then create new / not enough space on media To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbackup/+bug/913827/+subscriptions ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Nssbackup-team] [Bug 913827] Re: should delete old backups, then create new / not enough space on media
I'm COMPLETLY with you, Jean-Peer. In my case, i got three (3) backups on an external HDD - so if the oldest removed and the actual fails i'm not naked at all! :-) But the space for the fourth backup is sometimes a little bit to small... This is at the moment my external drive with three backups: /dev/sdd1 528447160 371651084 129952544 75% /media/Backup I suggest in this case an additional question with the possibility to check (or uncheck, but opt-in seems smater) to remove one older backup before the new one is created. So 'sbackup' should search the backup medium for older backups an only if there are more than one AND the question for deletion beforehand is checked AND the backup is older than the delete rule. But it is not my baby, but i think this is an idea how to solve these problem without (i hope!) great chin-ups and alterations and modifications in the source code. Thanks for taking this problem serious! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is subscribed to sbackup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913827 Title: should delete old backups, then create new / not enough space on media To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbackup/+bug/913827/+subscriptions ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Nssbackup-team] [Bug 913827] Re: should delete old backups, then create new / not enough space on media
Thank you for using sbackup and for taking the time reporting this bug. The order of backup creation and removal of existing snapshots was choosen by intent: 1. make a new backup 2. in case of success remove old snapshots Reason for this is, that you don't want to end with *no* backup at all in case of errors. Image following situation: all snapshots were removed (since they are older than the specified threshold). The subsequent backup fails for whatever reason. You'd have lost all of your backups now and this is not acceptable. I set this issue to Opinion and please feel free to add comments or elaborate on your usecase or possible solutions from user's perspective. There is room for improvements here but simply change the order of backup creation and removal is not the right solution, I think. Thank you so much for your help. ** Changed in: sbackup Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: sbackup Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Simple Backup Maintainers, which is subscribed to sbackup. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/913827 Title: should delete old backups, then create new / not enough space on media To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbackup/+bug/913827/+subscriptions ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
