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

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Charles Duffy <address@hidden>
>>>>> 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 anything 
> that matches *both* criteria, or anything that matches *either* 
> criteria. Personally, I think the former is more useful -- removing 
> anything that matches *either* could be done with two separate runs, 
> whereas removing anything that matches *both* couldn't.

It's a good idea, and has been proposed before.  The syntax was going to
be --retain-at-least <time>, where only increments matching both time
specifications would be deleted.  I even have vague memories of writing
a bit of code about this, and was surprised to find no mention of
--retain-at-least in CVS.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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