rolling backup

[Sergei G]

I ended up creating a rolling backup script.  It does not use exponential
strategy, but is simple enough for me:

https://github.com/Kulak/rollingdump

I pushed it to github as a backup strategy :)


On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Alexander Moisseev <moiseev at mezonplus.ru>
wrote:

> On 25.01.16 14:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>
>> Deleting 'all but the last N' is a good strategy with backups.  Suppose
>> for whatever reason, backup fails for N nights in a row.  If you just
>> deleted backup files that were over N days old, you'ld be left without
>> any backups at all after a certain time.  However, keeping a certain
>> number of files means that you still have some backups available, albeit
>> older than would be ideal.
>>
>> An exponential expiry strategy can solve that problem.
>
> https://github.com/moisseev/rmexp/blob/master/rmexp/rmexp.pod
> There is no support for backups stored locally as files yet, but it is not
> complicated to add.
>
> --
> Alexander
>
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