Re: "Stateless Linux" project

[Eli Carter <eli carter inet com>]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:14:08 -0500, Eli Carter <eli carter inet com> wrote:
>
> > Use rdiff-backup (mentioned in other comments).
> > Set up some simple policy on how long to keep which backups.
> > Provide a simple 'restore lost file from backup' GUI (and commandline)
> > utilities.
> >
> > The "simple" policy I would advocate would be to keep incremental
> > backups on this schedule:
> > One per day for the last week.
> > One per week for the last month[1]
> > One per month for the last N months, where N <= 14 [2], and have N
> > automatically fluctuate as disk space on the server is consumed and
> > freed.  (May warn the user when it is about to be decreased.)
> > [1] Define "month" to mean "4 weeks" for simplicity.
> > [2] For a year, N = 52/4 = 13, and add one so you can get last April's
> > tax return you inadvertantly deleted.
>
>
> rdiff-backup doesn't allow for that finegrained of a policy currently.
> removing of old incrementals is only exposed with a "remove later than
> this point" option.
> You'd have to hook into current rdiff-backup development discussions
> about the likelyhood
> of that feature being expanded to allow for culling of increments in
> dateranges while leaving some. For example i run rdiff-backup nightly,
> and then tell it to remove increments older than 1 month old. There is
> no way for me to tell it things like "remove everything older than 1
> month except for 1 increment as close to the start of each month as
> possible"
> -jef"rdiff-backup --make-me-a-sandwich"spaleta

Ah, I thought it would support that.  Oh well.  So a simple policy of 
"keep a month's worth of incrementals" would be a good start.
In my usage of rdiff-backup, I'm still at the "try to make rdiff-backup 
a habit" stage. :/

Eli
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