Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

2006-01-23 Thread Ben Escoto
Charles Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:05:57 -0600 Do you think it would make sense to define behaviour for when both remove-more-than and remove-older-than are used? It otherwise would be ambiguous as to whether such indicates one wishes to remove

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

2006-01-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, sim wrote: On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Peter Schuller wrote: Often I would find it very useful to be able to say keep the N newest snapshots and remove the rest, which is safer. Peter, This feature already exists in rdiff-backup. From the 'Time Formats' section of the man

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, Peter, This feature already exists in rdiff-backup. From the 'Time Formats' section of the man page: 6. A backup session specification which is a non-negative integer followed by 'B'. For instance, '0B' specifies the time of the current mirror, and '3B' specifies the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

2006-01-19 Thread Charles Duffy
Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I am always reluctant to use --remove-older-than in scripts because there is always the possibility that the clock is screwed up for whatever reason and it decides to remove all reverse diffs. Often I would find it very useful to be able to say keep the N newest

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

2006-01-18 Thread sim
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Peter Schuller wrote: Often I would find it very useful to be able to say keep the N newest snapshots and remove the rest, which is safer. Peter, This feature already exists in rdiff-backup. From the 'Time Formats' section of the man page: 6. A backup session