Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Discussion of poll winning feature: repository editing

[Charles Duffy]

Ben Escoto wrote:
> For the people that voted for repository editing, what did you want
> exactly?
As for me, I want the ability to merge old increments, such that beyond 
a given point I can abandon daily increments and store only weekly 
increments; and beyond that only monthly. As the dataset I work with has 
frequent enough changes that the same regions will be modified multiple 
times during the course of a week, such combination will indeed decrease 
(in some cases nontrivially) the amount of data being archived.

> Also more generally, why do you want to edit an existing repository?
> Is it to save disk space?
>   
Yes. I'm storing backups from potentially a very large number of remote 
systems, and space is very much a potential issue.