Re: [BackupPC-users] Problems disk usage after migrated/reinstalled from 3.3 to 4.4

[klxout <kl...@gm...>]

Hi,

Correcte in my case I have many big files, postres backups,
why is restricted to 7 days on v4?

It is possible to recover v3 feature que keep less days? Now?

Thanks

El dg., 7 de des. 2025, 14:18, G.W. Haywood <ba...@ju...> va
escriure:

> Hi there,
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025, klxout wrote:
>
> > El dc., 19 de nov. 2025, 9:28, G.W. Haywood va escriure:
> >>
> >> There's been a suggestion that seven days might be a bit long. ...
> >
> > Thanks, after some daus seria fusta after reinstall now purged , bit
> seria
> > that only as Min 7 daus, us possible to restrict to less than days, For
> > example  5 days?
>
> My guess is that there should be no problems if you reduce the timeout
> for example from seven days to five.  It is just a guess based on what I
> read in the Github issue to which you originally contributed.
>
> Is the current value of seven days causing problems for you?  I can
> only imagine that it would be a problem if you are backing up a large
> number of large files of which most change frequently.
>
> Backing up the files underlying the tables in a database system for
> example might be expected to cause issues.  In my view BackupPC is not
> particularly suitable for that kind of backup.  My own database
> servers are backed up using the Postgress dump utility via cron jobs.
>
> Your translation utility seems to need work. ;)
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
>
>
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