Re: [rdiff-backup-users] logarithmic scheduling

[Serge Wroclawski]

On 12 Dec 2004, Rainer Zocholl wrote:

> backups should run "unattended"
> Every hour a shot is done.
> That hourly shots should be kept only for 48 hour
> At the third day
> one of those 24 shots (say one of 23:00 ) should
> be kept as "day 0..7", all other "hourly" should be deleted.
> After a week fridays shot should be kept as "week 1",
> while all other "days" older than 7 days should be deleted.
> After 4/5 weeks the last "week" of the previous Months
> should be renamed to "month x", and all other deleted.
> After 12 month the last backup of december should become "Year xxx"
> After 5 years all older year backups should be deleted.

dirvish does this. Dirvish has many similiarities with rdiff-backup but I
found rdiff-backup easier to work with (though Dirvish and faubackup were
close seconds).

I think faubackup can also do this.

It would indeed be great if rdiff-backup had this.

- Serge Wroclawski