[Box Backup] Deleting from backup

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Tue, 13 May 2008 11:58:16 +0100


Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, 11 May 2008, Greg Bolshaw wrote:
>
>>> A 'delete <object-id>' would be good in bbackupquery.
>>
[...]
>> Is it possible to automatically delete files from the backup after a
>> number of days, rather than keeping them until the storage limit is
>> reached? I would like to create a backup scheme where the last 30  
>> days
>> of files are always available, rather than the last n GB.
>
> Of course it's possible in theory but I'm afraid it's not  
> implemented yet.
> Currently the store decides when to delete files based on its own
> algorithm, which just tries to keep the account below the soft limit.

There's a "delete as soon as possible" flag supported by the server,  
but not by bbackupquery. If there was some UI for setting this flag,  
it'd get deleted by the store on the next housekeeping run.

Ben