Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Feature suggestion: Ability to keep a certain number of snapshots

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Peter Schuller wrote:

> I am always reluctant to use --remove-older-than in scripts because
> there is always the possibility that the clock is screwed up for
> whatever reason and it decides to remove all reverse diffs. Often I
> would find it very useful to be able to say "keep the N newest
> snapshots and remove the rest", which is safer.

this is also useful when a few nightly cron jobs fail... because then 
expiring by date means you'll end up with less than N increments...

-dean