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

[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 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 time  of
>      the 3rd newest increment.

i just found and fixed an off-by-1 traceback in this... i had a directory 
with 40 increments, and specifying 41B produced a traceback... but 40B and 
42B were fine.  committed the fix to 1.0.x and 1.1.x cvs.

-dean