Paul Slootman wrote: > On Mon 25 Jan 2010, Richard wrote: > >> *How would one retain monthly backups from the LAST day of each month? Not >> all months have 31 days. >> > > # MIN HR DOM MON DOW STRFTIME_FMT > * * 31 * * +1 year > * * 30 4,6,9,11 * +1 year > * * 28 2 * +1 year > > Ignoring leap years for simplicity :-) > > > That is brilliant! Thanks!
>> *How exactly does one specify the FIRST Sunday of each month? Is it: >> <snip the 'not it' example> >> > No, it's: > * * 1-7 * 1 +1 year > > OH, I get it no. (where Day of Month - 1-7 AND Day of Week = 1(sunday). Nice! >> *In 'man dirvish.conf' the example for expire-rule contained this statement: >> "...the remaining nightlies are kept for 5 weeks." I was unable to find >> that in the example provided in my man page (which I suppose I should paste >> here.) >> <snip the incomplete paste> > The "5 weeks" rule is the: > > expire-default: +5 weeks > > line, which you omitted from your paste :-) > > Oh! right! expire-default !! /facepalm I was so wrapped up in the forest of expire-rule I didn't see the trees! Does this mean I get disqualified for the pink pony? I'll wait for Dave to weigh in on that. Oh. and just a quick re-iteration of an important point. These rules won't expire your backups. They only flag them for dirvish-expire. You still have to run dirvish-expire. -- Richard _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
