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SIMple Back Up and Recovery
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How to clean up #22

Open lcreid opened 9 years ago

lcreid commented 9 years ago

With the large NAS, I don't need to clean up. The number of links may eventually be a nuisance.

A possible approach: A daemon that looks for any file that has only one link to it. Those are the backups we have to keep. Any backup where all the regular files have more than one link we don't need to keep.

Is that really true?

lcreid commented 8 years ago

One type of clean-up is simply to eliminate the really old stuff. Others might want to keep some things forever. This might not be that easy to implement from the client side. On the other hand, it might be. I have to explore how rsync works when you say delete the files that aren't there...