[Box Backup] FeatureRequest: Mass Deletion Protection

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Torsten,

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Torsten wrote:

> i build a little patch for the Feature Request "Mass Deletion 
> Protection".
> 
> http://boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/FeatureRequests#MassDeletionProtection
> 
> If a local directory does not exists but exists on the backup store. And 
> if this location is activated in bbackupd.conf then it is not marked as 
> deleted.
> 
> I use this in conjunction with autofs and linux. Autofs does not create 
> a directory if the mount was not successfully.
> 
> To activate this you have to extend the bbackupd.conf config file with:
> 
> KeepLocationIfNotFoundLocal = yes
> 
> It would be nice, if somebody could tell me if this patch works for you.

Thanks for the patch! However, I thought of a simpler way of doing this. 
Now that we have a setting for how long to wait before deleting unused 
root directory entries, how about letting it be set to zero to disable 
deleting them forever? E.g.

	DeleteRedundantLocationsAfter = 0

would change the default time of 172800 seconds (2 days) to "never 
delete".

Would that do what you want? 

> I don't know, if the mailing list filters attachments. If so, where to 
> put the patch?

Here is fine, but if you have a Trac account, putting it in the Trac 
bugtracker would be even better, ensuring that it doesn't get lost.

Cheers, Chris.
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