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 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:
> >
[snip]
> > $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = '25';
> > $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = '5';
> > $Conf{FullAgeMax} = '60';
[snip]
>
> Where is your problem? You have 22 full backups already achieved.
> So your server will also keep the next 3 full and will remove the
> #0 since the 4. full backup will occur. The count of already
> achieved incrementals is 45. Exactly what you want.
I want it to delete all the fulls older than 60 days.
FullKeepCntMin is only 5, so if I have more than 5 fulls (which I
do), then everything older than FullAgeMax should be deleted, no?
-Robin
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