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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: [Duplicity-talk] --remove-older-than broken
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Ben Escoto |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: [Duplicity-talk] --remove-older-than broken? |
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Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:14:41 -0800 |
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:58:53 -0800 Ben Escoto <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:43:11 +0100 Christoph Siess <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I have the following backup solution:
> > /usr/local/bin/duplicity --remove-older-than 1W -i ... (this is
> > duplicity_inc.sh)
> > /usr/local/bin/duplicity --remove-older-than 1W -f ... (this is
> > duplicity_full.sh)
> >
> > The crontab looks like this:
> > 30 3 * * 1-6 /root/cron/duplicity_inc.sh
> > 30 3 * * 7 /root/cron/duplicity_full.sh
> >
> > My problem is that older backups don't get deletet after one week - what
> > am I doing wrong?
>
> I think the --remove-older-than option is not compatible with backing
> up. You need to run duplicity separately with only the
> --remove-older-than option.
>
> In general I don't know how people are finding about this
> --remove-older-than option since it doesn't seem to be documented
> anywhere.
>
>
> --
> Ben Escoto
Oops, posted to the wrong list. Although rdiff-backup's option is
also incompatible with backing up, so this shouldn't be confusing :)
--
Ben Escoto
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