Re: [rdiff-backup-users] About DeleteIntermediate feature

[Yannick Patois]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

Andreas Olsson a écrit :
> On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:22:47 Yannick Patois wrote:
> > On the wiki, I saw this request for a "DeleteIntermediate" feature:
> > Could this be emulated by some script? Doing a sequence of:
> > for date in (some dates):
> >         rdiff-backup -r date /repository/A /tmparea
> >         rdiff-backup --current-time date /tmparea /repository/B
> Yes, that sounds like a working approach. I guess the challenge is to match 
> the inputed dates to the available backups. What might be nice is that if the 
> script could take arguments in the form of daily, monthly, etc.

It would likely have to be a bit more convoluted: you certainly wont do 
"monthly" from now (and eg, having the most recent backup already 29 
days old), you would do something like --monthy-for-older-than <some 
date>, with, at the same time using --weekly-for-older-than, and so on.

> Besides, the concept of building a new repository might actually be a Good 
> Thing.

I don't think so, just a dirty hack ;)

> > - It will take a lot of time  (maybe even more than the time between two
> >    scheduled backups - 24h for us)
> Only one way to find out :-) Test cases...

I'll let you know, if I ever come up with something.


> > - Will "--current-time date" option work fine for this?
> I can't see why not.

Nice!

Thanks,

        Yannick


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