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Id: 5600
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: Snapback2

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Requestors: p_negri [...] modiano.com
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.5
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Subject: Only one hourly
If in config file you specify "Hourlies 1" Snapback "lost" the hardlink function. All daylies became full backup then the disk occupation grow as dim_of_backup x num dailies wasting space on hard disk. example config section Hourlies 1 Dailies 7 Weeklies 4 Monthlies 12 AutoTime Yes With this configuration only hourly.0 and daily.0 will use hard link daily.x will be full backup.
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:18:56 -0500
From: Mike Heins <mike [...] perusion.com>
To: Guest via RT <bug-Snapback2 [...] rt.cpan.org>
Subject: Re: [cpan #5600] Only one hourly
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> > This message about Snapback2 was sent to you by guest <> via rt.cpan.org > > Full context and any attached attachments can be found at: > <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=5600 > > > If in config file you specify "Hourlies 1" Snapback "lost" the hardlink function. > All daylies became full backup then the disk occupation grow as dim_of_backup x num dailies wasting space on hard disk. > > example config section > > Hourlies 1 > Dailies 7 > Weeklies 4 > Monthlies 12 > AutoTime Yes > > With this configuration only hourly.0 and daily.0 will use hard link > daily.x will be full backup. >
Thanks for the report. I believe the answer is that if you don't have "ManyFiles Yes" you must have at least two hourlies. -- Mike Heins Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/ phone +1.765.647.1295 tollfree 800-949-1889 <mike@perusion.com> Some people have twenty years of experience, some people have one year of experience twenty times over. -- Anonymous