[Dirvish] Expiry problems

[Roberto Mello]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Fionn Behrens <fionn at spamfilter.de> wrote:
>
> To my surprise the change had no effect on the existing backups which
> are not being expired according to the new rules but seem to have kept
> their old expiry dates. How can I update the meta data to get them
> expired?

Yeah, you have to edit ${VAULT}/divish/default.hist (or whatever your
branch is named) and change the dates for expiration.

> And are there any simple means to "manually" remove unwanted backup
> steps before they are due to expire without compromising the integrity
> of the whole vault?

I'll defer that question, as I'm not entirely sure of the answer I
think is correct.

Roberto

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