[Dirvish] Number images x Disk Usage

[Joel Franco]

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On Qui Mai 03 07 07:44, JT Moree wrote:
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> > Joel Franco wrote:
> > The most complicated part I can think of (this is all off the top of my
> > head, you understand; it bears further thought) is coming up with an
> > algorithm for picking which backups to delete that makes sense.  Simply
> > getting rid of the oldest wouldn't keep me happy, as I like to keep a
> > monthly backup around for quite some time, and would be much happier to
> > see a 12-day old daily backup get sacrificed than a 3-month old monthly
> > backup.  My first thought would be calculate, for each backup, the
> > percentage of the duration between creation and expiration which has
> > elapsed and delete backups for which that value is the highest.
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> this guy has an interesting method.
> http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/

This is a mathematical way of maintain the images (as i understood), but
it is not function of the disk space.

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