Re: GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup

[Michael Terry <mike mterry name>]

On 11 May 2011 13:57, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr> wrote:
> Why not just ask the user when performing a new backup in case there's
> not enough space left? Since DéjàDup already does full backups from time
> to time, it could notice the user that in order to backup new data, s/he
> needs to get rid of older versions until the date of a full backup
> (chosen so that just enough data can be freed to make the new one).

When disk space is low, the oldest backup is already deleted to make
room.  I just meant it is hard to implement 'telescoping' backups
where we only keep monthly backups from 1 year ago, weekly backups
from a month ago, etc.

-mt