Re: [BackupPC-users] differential number of backups for different directories (mount points?)

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Yaroslav Halchenko writes:

> I have a set of users who copy data (a lot) to the server for temporary=

> usage - to run computation.
>=20
> Usually I keep around 5 full backups (going up to 5 month back) and
> incrementals each day of the week, but for those guys I need a separate=

> policy -- like only last 3 days backup, since otherwise they fill up th=
e
> backuppc pool pretty quickly.
>=20
> Can it be done from within configuration
> somehow? May be two split configs for the same host with non-overlappin=
g
> configurations which one backups which parts...
>=20
> or should I simply compose a cron job which would manually to remove al=
l
> but 3 most recent entries... something like:
>  rm -rf `/bin/ls -d */f%2fraid/fhome/fneurosci | grep -v new | tail -n +=
4`
>  ?

Just create a per-PC config.pl for each of those clients and
set $Conf{FullKeepCnt}, $Conf{FullPeriod} as needed.

Craig