Re: [rdiff-backup-users] RFE - keep a certain number of increments

[Greg Freemyer]

Why do I feel like VMS is right around the corner?

Just joking, I like the idea.  

(and IIRC VMS had that feature 20 years ago, but it was for local same
machine/directory backups only)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:19, Alan wrote:
> Hey folks.  Is there a way to tell rdiff-backup to keep a certain number
> of files?  I currently use remove-older-than which works great, but I'd
> like it to keep N incremental backups regardless of how old they are.
> My reasoning for this is that I was having some problems with my remote
> backup host and finally got around to getting them fixed today.  As the
> last backup was a while ago (~15D) and I use remove-older-than 10D (to
> keep disk usage down), when I finally got a good backup today I only
> have one, which is fine, but it makes me a bit nevous still.  
> 
> What would be cool is an option similar to --remove-older-than that
> would be something like --keep-number-backups 4 which would keep the
> last 4 backups, regardless of how old they were.  
> 
> Comments? 
> 
> alan