[Box Backup] Mailbox backup is dangerous.

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Shouldn't BB not just give a message "storage almost full", or when the hardlimit is reached "storage full"?

Achim is talking about file versions.
And there is the matter of deleted files.
Both can be applied to the same file.

Those 2 option should be set and no amount of diskspace should ignore those right?

If I have changed a file 3 times and then delete it.
If I have set the file version to: keep the last 5 versions.
And the deletion from storage after deletion from my disk to: 1 year.
(you don't want to keep files indefinetly or the store would fill up uncuntrolable)

In Achims case it should be possible to restore that file with these settings.

Should a "housekeeping" job check for those paramaters and not worry about disk/store size?
How is that realy setup in boxbackup?

Rgds Edo



--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Christian Tschabuschnig <tschaboo@gmx.at> wrote:

> From: Christian Tschabuschnig <tschaboo@gmx.at>
> Subject: Re: [Box Backup] Mailbox backup is dangerous.
> To: boxbackup@boxbackup.org
> Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 12:00 PM
> Achim wrote:
> > 2. The week after, the user unknowingly overwrites
> some of the holiday
> > photos from step 1. without noticing: the digital
> camera re-uses the same
> > filenames for different photos from a visit to the
> zoo!
> 
> Your special scenario would be even problematic if bb
> _would_ work as
> expected since your files wouldn't be recognized as being
> deleted but as
> being changed (*), so the "old version" will disappear
> somewhen.
> Although, as Tom already mentioned, this will (with or
> without this bug)
> only happen when you reach the softlimit and the
> housekeeping process
> runs. As long as you're far away from that limit and you
> have enough
> space you shouldn't have to worry. That's how I understood
> it.
> 
> So your problem is independent of this bug. What we worry
> about is the
> following: Housekeeping tries to throw away the oldest
> stuff first. If
> it has about 100 revisions of 1 spreadsheet it removes the
> older one
> first. But if you delete a file which has not changed for
> ages that file
> is "old" for boxbackup anyway and it will be among the very
> first files
> that housekeeping will delete.
> 
> What I (or we, i suspect) want is that bb treats a file
> deleted on March
> 1st the same way as a revision of a file which was changed
> last on March
> 1st. So it stays as long in the storage until there is so
> much history
> to keep from 2nd March onwards that there is just no space
> for older stuff.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
> -- 
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