Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rotation?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Chris,

> What's the best way to implement a rotation policy? We'd like to keep 
> daily backups for a week, then weekly backups for a month, then monthly 
> backups. Are there some scripts available, or perhaps docs that explain 
> it in simple terms?

Sorry, as far as I know it's not possible to combine old rdiff-backup 
increments to reduce their size and implement such a strategy. You can 
only delete all increments over a certain age. It's something that I would 
really like to see as well.

Then again, rdiff-backup reduces the need for this by being quite 
efficient with disk space. You might not save much by deleting 
intermediate increments anyway (probably only the size of the metadata 
files, which can be a few megabytes per increment).

Cheers, Chris.
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