[Box Backup] Mailbox backup is dangerous.

[Achim]

Hello Chris:

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:19:39 +0100 (BST), Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com>
wrote:
>> I thought that the "Restore to a certain point in time" was supposed to

>> solve this issue. Perhaps this would be cleaner with real snapshots,
but 
>> I would still expect Boxi to restore the pictures in a version before 
>> and after the overwriting (given of course that a succesful backup took

>> place in between).
> 
> And provided that the old version in question has not yet been removed
by 
> housekeeping. And you can also do this with the command-line client, of 
> course, not just with Boxi.

Sure, Boxi was a spelling mistake: I meant BB in general.

You seem to confirm my understanding that in the following use case, all
versions of the file with the same name are still accessible:

A > backup > B > backup > [..] > N > backup

and I can go back to any version between A and N? And the only requirement
is that I do not run out of storage space on the soft limit so that house
keeping does not "get a chance" to delete older versions? Or will
housekeeing delete even if storate is available?

What about the "Redundant locations" message that I have seen at times,
does that work the same, i.e. no old locations or old files (deleted on the
host, available in the BB  store) are ever removed from the storage, as
long as soft limit is not reached? And when the hard limit is reached,
backing up and housekeeping stops alltogether?

BTW, did you have time to look at my proposal to add the existing versions
of a file to the Boxi UI, similar to the "-ot" flag in BB? This would make
it so much simpler for people to see what version they want to restore.
Rather than having to remember the date and time, they can simply pick a
file from a list!

Thanks, Achim

[1] <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=135105&atid=731485>