Jeffrey writes:

> In general, using FullKeepCnt and IncrKeepCnt (and associated
> variables) works well to prune older backups.
> 
> But sometimes there is a *specific* older backup that you want to hang
> onto because it has some crucial data (or is a 'better' snapshot). It
> would be great if you could tell BackupPC to keep an arbitrary list of
> numbered backups for each different host. (If any of the listed backups
> are incrementals, then BackupPC would of course be smart enough to
> save the relevant precedent incrementals and full backups).
> 
> For example I could imagine, a perl hash of arrays of the following
> form:
> 
> $Conf{PreserveBackups} = {
>                 "hostA" => [ '23', '354', '798' ],
>                 "hostB" => [ '3', '25', '37', '101' ],
>                 "hostC" => [ '9', '11', '33', '434' ],
>                 };
> 
> Does this make sense?

I'll add it to the todo list.  It's much better to put in
the backups file, rather than config file.

Craig

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