[Box Backup] Old vs Deleted files removal

[Chris Wilson]

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Hi Soren,

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Søren Døssing wrote:

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

It is by design, but it bothers many people including me, and there is a 
ticket open to change it. Unfortunately it's not trivial as I don't 
understand the current selection logic and I think the best solution is to 
have versioned (timestamped) backups, but boxbackup was never designed for 
that and it will take quite a bit of work to implement it. Sorry if that's 
disappointing.

Cheers, Chris.
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