Richard Shaw wrote at about 08:20:29 -0600 on Monday, March 2, 2020:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:08 AM Graham Seaman <gra...@theseamans.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to be able to mark some older full backups as 'frozen', not to
> >> be deleted. Is that possible? I can't find any mention of this in the
> >> docs.
> >
> >
> I don't think it's possible to mark one specific backup to keep, it's not
> really part of the way BackupPC is designed to work.
>
I added some simple code for v4 that allows you to mark some versions
as frozen -- which IMO is a very important feature...
Would love if Craig added that <hint> <hint>
--- BackupPC_dump.orig 2020-02-02 10:30:49.000000000 -0500
+++ BackupPC_dump 2020-02-02 10:34:28.955761936 -0500
@@ -1871,6 +1871,9 @@
my $noDelete = $i + 1 < @$Backups ? $Backups->[$i+1]{noFill}
: 0;
$noDelete = 0 if ( !$Backups[$i]{preV4} );
+ #Don't delete full backups that have '.save' in their root
directory
+ $noDelete = 1 if -e $Dir . "/" . $Backups[$i]{num}
. "/.save";
+
if ( !$noDelete &&
($fullKeepIdx >= @$fullKeepCnt
|| $k > 0
NOTE: just do:
touch TopDir/pc/<host>/<num>/.save
> I would just archive the backup you want to keep to another media.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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