[rdiff-backup-users] Re: [Duplicity-talk] --remove-older-than broken?

[Ben Escoto]

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

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