-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Joel Franco wrote: > The most complicated part I can think of (this is all off the top of my > head, you understand; it bears further thought) is coming up with an > algorithm for picking which backups to delete that makes sense. Simply > getting rid of the oldest wouldn't keep me happy, as I like to keep a > monthly backup around for quite some time, and would be much happier to > see a 12-day old daily backup get sacrificed than a 3-month old monthly > backup. My first thought would be calculate, for each backup, the > percentage of the duration between creation and expiration which has > elapsed and delete backups for which that value is the highest.
this guy has an interesting method. http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/ - -- JT Moree -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGOfVEFI6sVJUR1B8RAlzBAJ0Y2BjbHw81TYOtf4rV/XmQMEoszwCggS8h r7wNXRunJVMWj2HXFM3VnGM= =rN1m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
