Re: [bu-users] Deletions on incremental backups

[Vincent S. <bu...@hi...>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:06:03AM +0100, Stefan Morrell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My mind may be playing tricks, but I've convinced myself there used to be an
> option which needed setting to cause files to be deleted when incremental 
> backups were being done.
> 
> I'm using bu to do overnight "to disk" backups, so I've got essentially a hot
> spare disk I can bring up if need be, but what I don't want is accumulated 
> cruft from files no longer present on the master system.
> 
> Does this happen anyway and I've gone mad?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Stef

Hi Stef

No, there has never been an option to do that yet.  Although, it is one
the top items on my todo list for bu as soon as I can get a chance to do
some more work on it.  There has been mention of it on the mailing list
in the past.  That may be what you are remembering.