Re: [webmin-l] scheduled backups with deletion of old backups error

[Dinesh P. <din...@gm...>]

I just had that figured, Jamie! Thanks a lot! :)
I knew I had missed out something.

Regards.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:

> On 06/Jul/2008 02:34 Dinesh Pandian wrote ..
>
> Good day.
>
> When trying to create a scheduled backup, I get the following error:
>
> *Failed to save scheduled backup : Deletion of old backups is only
> supported when a date-based destination is used, and strftime substitutions
> are enabled*
>
> strftime substitutions are enabled, but I think I am missing something.
> I think I am unsure to what to name the destination folder, it's
> currently: "/sdb/backups/"
>
> The destination folder is a folder on the local system on another hard
> drive.
> Am on a Debian etch machine with virtualmin gpl 3.59.
>
> The folder needs to be named something like /sdb/backups/%d-%M-%Y, the %
> parts of which will be substituted based on the current date when the backup
> is made.
> If there is no date substitution like that in the filename, deletion of old
> backups makes no sense as the new ones will always be overwriting the old
> anyway.
>
>  - Jamie
>
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