Re: [PLUG] Backup drive filling up

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Malcolm
<mjhlists-plug-20080906@liminalflux.net> wrote:
>
> 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?

At work, I've had to get backups restored from 1999, so 13 years.
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