BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number

2009-08-29 18:40:29
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Feature request: preserve (from deletion) individual backups by number
From: Jon Craig <cannedspam.cant AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:36:01 -0400
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jeffrey J.
Kosowsky<backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
> Craig Barratt wrote at about 10:48:25 -0700 on Friday, August 28, 2009:
>
> Perhaps an interesting alternative way to do this without having to go
> into the config file (and in a way similar to what a previous
> responder mentioned) would be to set up logic so that any backup that
> has a 'minus' sign on it would be preserved (along with it's
> antecedents).
>

Excellent idea, but may with to choose something other than "-" as it
can cause command line issues with various commands if interpreted as
an option rather than a file name.  Appending a ".preserve" would
achieve the same thing and leave the backups in sequential order.

-- 
Jonathan Craig

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