RE: backup deleting old files

[Vadim Strizhevsky <vadim optonline net>]

mibus writes:
 > >Robert Mibus <mibus@bigpond.com> writes:
 > >> how would you recommend the naming system go?
 > >> eg. backupdir/database.pdb.1
 > >> or backupdir.1/database.pdb
 > >> or what?
 > >backupdir.1 is better than changing the file names because it will
 > >allow an easy restore with something like pilot-xfer.
 > 
 > or maybe backupdir/* for the current one, and backupdir/0/* to 
 > backupdir/(i-1)/* where i is the # of backups to be kept.
 > ie
 >  backupdir/
 >  backupdir/0
 >  backupdir/1
 >  backupdir/2
 >  backupdir/3
 >  backupdir/4
 > for 5 levels of backup after the current.
 > 
 > ??

That looks like the best suggestion from the all proposed ones.

-Vadim

 > 
 > btw; ill do this unless anyone else has a pressing desire to do it.
 > 
 > mibus
 > 
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