-- | | Joel Franco Guzmán .''`. | self-powered by : :' : | Debian Linux `. `' | `- On Qui Mai 03 07 07:44, JT Moree wrote: > -----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/
This is a mathematical way of maintain the images (as i understood), but it is not function of the disk space. > > - -- > 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 _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
