[rdiff-backup-users] Fwd: Partial delete of diff-files possible?

[Christian Kölpin]

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Hello

is there a way to delete rdiff-files in a time-based period?

My scenario is: i am backup a whole storage-container at once. After a
few times i have to (successfully) restore my backups i alway mentioned
that the files i hardly needed, wasn't in the backup or the backup was
to old... so i change to backup the whole container every day.
rdiff-backup handles this well. Normally it takes less then 10%
disk-space-overhead to keep a daily-history about a 4 month-period.

In the last two weeks there was a large file-replacing/merging/editing
(all files around one till ten GB) ongoing on the server. So the backup
disk-space-overhead jumps up to 25%. But I don't need keeping these
changes for the full 4 month, rather then needing the disk-space ;)

So my question: is there a way to keep daily-backups for a whole week,
followed only weekly diffs till a full month, and than only hold
monthly-summarized diffs. I know rdiff-backup doesn't support
"summarize/repacking" of diff-files out of the box, can I do this
manually without destroying the whole backup-structure?

greetings
Raptor 2101


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