Re: Keeping backups until storage runs short (deja-dup style) with command line tools?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:46:43PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> deja-dup has an option to keep backups forever or until storage on the drive
> backed up to runs short (at which point it starts deleting old backups).
> Does someone have any pointers on how to copy that behavior using duplicity
> and/or other CLI tools?
In words, if the amount of the previous full backup
is less than free space, nuke the oldest full backup,
and check again.
You could write that in shell/perl/python,
using rsync to make the backups.
Greetings,
Joel
> Cheers, Joh
>
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