rolling backup

[Alexander Moisseev]

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.

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Alexander