On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 08:20:54PM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> > I was wondering if is it possibile to limit the backup space of an
> > user like 30Gb or something like that
> 
> This is not currently possible with BackupPC. It wouldn't fit the
> pooling scheme either - how would you count a file which is shared among
> 5 backups and maybe 3 users?

Probably the requestor really wants to limit the space used by files
ONLY on that one user's computer; pooled across N backups doesn't
matter.  

you're certainly right it would not be easy to implement in backuppc
even with that caveat.

danno
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