Re: [rdiff-backup-users] RFE - keep a certain number of increments

[Alan]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:38:40PM -0700, Ben Escoto wrote:
> >>>>> "AB" == alan  <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:19:35 -0700
> 
>   AB> What would be cool is an option similar to --remove-older-than
>   AB> that would be something like --keep-number-backups 4 which would
>   AB> keep the last 4 backups, regardless of how old they were.
> 
> Yes, it's a good idea.  How about if a new time specification was
> allowed, so that '--remove-older-than 4B' would remove everything
> older than the 4th Backup session?  It could be useful when restoring
> also, e.g. '--restore-as-of 2B'.

That would work.... nice and simple to the user, no extra options or
anything.  Not sure how it would be on the backend of course :)


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