[Dirvish] Expire removes most recent backup?

[Dave Howorth]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On Friday 04 Jan 2008, Barton C Massey spake thus:
>> That's very helpful---thanks much!  I imagine I'll go ahead
>> and just make dirvish-expire do the right thing here,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Eric Mountain wrote:
>> I disagree with your perception of the "right thing".  See Paul's responses on 
>> this thread - they are spot on.
> 
> Perhaps there is something that Eric and Paul (and myself!) are
> missing about Bart's and Tony's usage.   That may be because that the
> particular application is a poor match for dirvish/rsync capabilities,
> or that dirvish/rsync is configured sub-optimally.


snip of absolutely excellent summary follows:

> The two features of rsync that make dirvish worthwhile ...
> ... dirvish rule number one: "first, do no harm".

Keith, the snipped section above is perfect. Please could you post it to
the wiki?

Cheers, Dave