Re: [BackupPC-users] wrap around value question

I dont believe this is constrained to a certain number of digits. because of that I think that the only limitations would be that number of characters available for directory names on the platform you are using. if you are running a single backup per day and never deleting any old incremental or full backups you would be able to run for 10 years and only be up to ~3650. that just 4 characters. in fact you can get 27 years out of 4 digits and 274 years out of 5 digits.

I would think that you would run into a max-directories on a filesystem limit and a file space limit long before then.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:24 AM, N J <backuppc AT alcifer DOT org> wrote:

Hello all,

Under /data/BackupPC/pc/$host there are nnn(an integer) directories
starting at 0 to represent the backup number. I presume that it'll
wrap around (overflow?) at some point should it be in use long enough.
Is that value platform independent -- will it be the same on both
32bit and 64bit machines -- or not.

Thanks.

--
NJ

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