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 restart the server for that to work? we *always* have backups running, and there's still no "stop when all current backups are complete" option, so I avoid that) Here's the current config: $Conf{FullPeriod} = '3.7'; $Conf{IncrPeriod} = '0.9'; $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = '25'; $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = '5'; $Conf{FullAgeMax} = '60'; $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = '45'; $Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = '10'; $Conf{IncrAgeMax} = '60'; And here's the list of backups with types and dates: # awk -F' ' '{ print $1, $2, strftime("%F", $3); }' backups 0 full 2011-02-16 4 full 2011-02-21 10 full 2011-02-25 16 full 2011-03-01 22 full 2011-03-05 28 full 2011-03-10 34 full 2011-03-14 40 full 2011-03-18 46 full 2011-03-22 51 full 2011-03-26 52 incr 2011-03-27 53 incr 2011-03-28 54 incr 2011-03-28 55 incr 2011-03-29 56 incr 2011-03-30 57 full 2011-03-31 58 incr 2011-03-31 59 incr 2011-04-01 60 incr 2011-04-02 61 incr 2011-04-03 62 full 2011-04-04 63 incr 2011-04-06 64 incr 2011-04-07 65 incr 2011-04-07 66 full 2011-04-08 67 incr 2011-04-09 68 incr 2011-04-09 69 incr 2011-04-10 70 incr 2011-04-11 71 incr 2011-04-12 72 full 2011-04-12 73 incr 2011-04-13 74 incr 2011-04-14 75 incr 2011-04-15 76 incr 2011-04-15 77 full 2011-04-16 78 incr 2011-04-17 79 incr 2011-04-17 80 incr 2011-04-18 81 incr 2011-04-19 82 full 2011-04-20 83 incr 2011-04-22 84 incr 2011-04-22 85 incr 2011-04-23 86 full 2011-04-24 87 incr 2011-04-26 88 incr 2011-04-27 89 incr 2011-04-27 90 incr 2011-04-28 91 full 2011-04-29 92 incr 2011-04-29 93 incr 2011-04-30 94 incr 2011-05-02 95 full 2011-05-03 96 incr 2011-05-04 97 incr 2011-05-04 98 incr 2011-05-05 99 incr 2011-05-06 100 full 2011-05-07 101 incr 2011-05-08 102 incr 2011-05-09 103 incr 2011-05-10 104 full 2011-05-11 105 incr 2011-05-11 106 incr 2011-05-12 107 incr 2011-05-13 108 full 2011-05-13 Thanks for your help. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/