Brad Alexander wrote:

> Okay, this kind of confuses me. I would like to have the following backup
> strategy:
> 
> 6 incrementals (*2)
> 1 weekly (*2)
> 1 yearly (*1)
> 
> Currently,
> 
> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = [ 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1 ];
> 
> I know this isn't right, but it's not what I would anticipate seeing. For
> instance, one of my backup targets has:
> 
> Backup# Type Filled Level Start Date
>  626         full     yes     0    2/21 23:00
>  645         full     yes     0    3/15 01:02
>  649         incr      no     1    3/19 01:00
>  650         incr      no     1    3/20 01:00
>  651         incr      no     1    3/21 01:00
>  652         full     yes     0    3/22 01:00
>  653         incr      no     1    3/23 01:00
>  654         incr      no     1    3/24 01:00
>  655         incr      no     1    3/25 01:00
> 
> incrs between 3/16 and 3/18 are missing because of a power outage and the
> backuppc filesystem not mounting correctly.
> 
> So how should I set up my FullKeepCnt to keep one backup for a year and
> two sets of fulls/incrementals for the past two weeks?
> 
> Thanks,
> --b
There are a lot of threads about this. In my point of view it "was" one of 
the few "room for improvements" within BackupPC.

I've developed a patch for V3.1 which can be found in backuppc.devel. It 
will solve your requirements. But I didn't migrate the patch to V3.2 and I 
don't know when I will do that.

br
Matthias
-- 
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