Re: [PLUG] Backup drive filling up

[Malcolm <mjhlists-plug-20080906@liminalflux.net>]

On 2012-07-25 7:55 AM, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:21:11PM -0400, Carl Johnson wrote:
> > That would potentially give him two nearly full drives wouldn't it?
>
> That, plus I think I can probably live with incrementals going back
> just 2 years instead of 2 1/2 years.  The question is when I need
> to start trimming old backups.

Out of curiosity, does anyone actually go back to backups that old to 
restore something? The only time I've needed prior versions of anything, 
or something deleted from the current copy, it's been code under version 
control.

I purge my rdiff-backup deltas whenever I get low on space on the backup 
drive (so I only have older stuff if I haven't been making many changes 
recently).
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