[Box Backup] keeping files 28 days patch

Tom Albers boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:22:51 +0200


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Hi,

Do I understand correctly that this patch looks at the modification time of a file for the 28 days period? So this would not help if me if my mail from 2000 gets deleted from the origin, i'm at my softlimit and housekeeping is ran (which will delete my mail instantly, making boxbackup close to useless for me now).

Best,

Tom Albers
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At Thursday 09 July 2009 16:21, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i build a very little patch that only deletes files from store that are old or 
> deleted and more than 28 days old. So files less that 28 days old are kept.
> 
> I think such a feature is important for Box Backup but i do not unterstand it 
> completely.
> 
> - I think this patch generates a new class of file that i do not have a name 
> for. Old and deleted but securely saved. The known old and deleted perhaps 
> saved, because they are deleted if soft limit reached. Should there be new 
> names for the new files? I do not know how other online backup solutions 
> solve this.
> 
> - So the new soft limit should be calculated from actual data and secure old 
> and deleted files. How could this be done?
> 
> - Is there a way for the client to tell the server how long to keep the files?
> 
> Any annotations or ideas?
> 
> thanks for reading
>   Torsten


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