[Bug 1770528] Re: Purging of old backup - Simple cut-off is not happening

2018-05-21 Thread Daniel Mladek
It's a bit tricky to come up with simple description. IMHO examples are the best way how to demonstrate the functionality, so, please find below what I would include in the documentation/help for the Simple Backup Suite. ~~~ Purging Is the instrument to keep

[Bug 1770528] Re: Purging of old backup - Simple cut-off is not happening

2018-05-20 Thread Daniel Mladek
Hi wattazoum, Thank you so much for looking into this issue and explaining how the Sbackup works. Well, I've slowly arrived to similar conclusion and yes, you're right about our configuration was kind of clashing. (Just inherited how it was setup and my aim is to improve it). With no

[Bug 1770528] Re: Purging of old backup - Simple cut-off is not happening

2018-05-19 Thread Oumar Aziz OUATTARA
Hi, I was one of the main developers of Sbackup. I have devoted myself to other projects for quite some time now (leaving sbackup to others). Developers interested in this project come and go depending on their free time. This explains the time it took for you to have and answer to your

[Bug 1770528] Re: Purging of old backup - Simple cut-off is not happening

2018-05-17 Thread Daniel Mladek
Interesting observation: The last night I've change the value of *Simple cut-off:* from 10 to 7, so now it looks like: Simple cut-off: Erase all backup older than 7 days. The output of the sbackup in the log is also interesting: 2018-05-16 22:30:00,509 - INFO: TAR returned a message: Total bytes

[Bug 1770528] Re: Purging of old backup - Simple cut-off is not happening

2018-05-15 Thread Daniel Mladek
To workaround this issue, I wrote a simple shell script located at: https://gist.github.com/delphym/62e99ef7ba936879580c66c6a9685ef3#file-clean_old_backups-sh Someone might find it helpful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1770528] Re: Purging of old backup - Simple cut-off is not happening

2018-05-13 Thread Daniel Mladek
At the end of a sbackup.log there is a record that "Simple purge" has been attempted (without any status what it actually did): 2018-05-13 16:45:25,339 - INFO: Leading '/' from member names were removed. 2018-05-13 16:45:25,350 - INFO: TAR returned a message: Total bytes written: 370298880