[rdiff-backup-users] Use of --remove-older-than

[Troels Arvin]

Hello,

Today, I used "--remove-older-than" for the first time. It responded
with this:

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address@hidden backup]# rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 1M /backup/host
Fatal Error: Found 53 relevant increments, dated:
Sat Dec 14 05:06:01 2002
Mon Dec 16 05:00:58 2002
Tue Dec 17 05:03:27 2002
Wed Dec 18 05:06:52 2002
Thu Dec 19 05:07:08 2002
Fri Dec 20 05:04:09 2002
Sat Dec 21 05:10:45 2002
Sun Dec 22 05:02:08 2002
Mon Dec 23 05:01:25 2002
Tue Dec 24 05:03:50 2002
Wed Dec 25 04:59:28 2002
Thu Dec 26 05:01:50 2002
[...]
Tue Feb  4 05:02:02 2003
Wed Feb  5 04:59:39 2003
If you want to delete multiple increments in this way, use the --force.
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Is this normal?
If yes, then I guess that the "--force" flag is most often needed if
clean-ups are not run after each backup?

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