Re: [BackupPC-users] auto-expire when the disk is full

I think that you could do this with a bash script in cron. do a `df /var/lib/backuppc`, determine if the drive is over the limit, which you can include the backuppc config file and use that variable in there for percentage, then if you are over that percent do an `ls -l $TopDIR/pc/` and choose the oldest file and delete that directory.

this could be very dangerous!

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Rob Owens <rob.owens AT biochemfluidics DOT com> wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that if /var/lib/backuppc is full,
BackupPC will simply not perform any backups. I'd like an option to
automatically delete the oldest backup in order to perform a new backup.
This is similar to the way MythTV works, if anybody's familiar with
that. When you hit your "episode limit", it lets you either 1) not
record any new ones or 2) delete the oldest to make room for a new episode.

How hard would it be to implement this type of setting in BackupPC?

-Rob
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