[Box Backup] Old vs Deleted files removal

Søren Døssing boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:45:06 +0900


It seem the house keeping process for server prefers to remove old
files before deleted files when storage is full.

query > usage
          Used   122879.9Mb  95% **************************************
     Old files        1.7Mb   0%
 Deleted files    57668.8Mb  45% ******************
   Directories       54.3Mb   0%
    Soft limit   122880.0Mb  96% **************************************
    Hard limit   128000.0Mb 100% ****************************************
query >

As a result I can no longer restore any older version of any existing
files. I can only restore existing files as well as deleted files. For
me it's inconvenient, since the deleted files are usually deleted for
a reason, and not as important to keep stored as old versions of
files.

I wonder if this behaviour is considered a feature or a bug. Is it
possible to configure bbstored to remove deleted files before old
files, or to keep a more fair balance of deleted vs. old files?

Thanks,

Soren