[Box Backup-dev] Proposal (patch): bbstored HousekeepingStyle mod

[Martin Ebourne]

"G." <gniemcew@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I produced a patch for bbstored housekeeping, to allow for a
> bbstored.conf "HousekeepingStyle" choice of "AchieveSoftLimit" (the
> current 0.10 implementation functionality), or a more thorough
> "RetainCurrentOnly" (deleting all old versions and deleted files
> during each housekeeping run).
>
> My main rationale for this patch was the fact that not only old file
> versions were rather irrelevant in my backup scenario, but also
> keeping a repository dist-clean gets rid of the problem when a large
> file diff gets rejected by bbstored, if its size is larger than the
> difference between the soft limit and the hard limit (if I remember
> correctly).

Can't you just set the soft limit very low? (Or even 0 might work?)

Cheers,

Martin.