[Dirvish] Expiry problems

[Fionn Behrens]

Am Montag, den 10.11.2008, 16:00 -0700 schrieb Roberto Mello:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, I 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.

Uuuuuh. That sounds pretty hackish and like a good chance to mess up the
entire backup repository...
Is the format of that file documented anywhere, e.g. which column means
exactly what?

kind regards,
               Fionn