[Dirvish] Re: Tuning my expiration dates

[Richard Geoffrion]

Dave Howorth wrote:
> <courtesy snip to keep from re-resending stuff that doesn't need to be 
> re-resent>
> This is better but it suffers from the same problems. I'd suggest making
> a separate script that just recalculates all the expiry dates. 
> <snip>
> Perhaps somebody already has a script that does something like this?
>   
Brian,

Check out http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?ForceExpire  on the dirvish 
wiki.  It can be used to wildcard-expire vaults.  Actually it just sets 
the vaults TO EXPIRE.  Verify and modify the script to meet your needs.  
The script should be well documented. 

Note: the script assumes an image format of YYYY-MM-DD (meaning it 
searches byte 9 and 10 in the date string) and is set to save any image 
made on the 1st day of the month -- which in the case of backups that 
run POST MIDNIGHT ...means the data in the vault is from the last day of 
the previous month.


-- 
Richard