[Dirvish] Expiry problems

[Darren Hook]

2008/11/11 Fionn Behrens <fionn at spamfilter.de>:
>> rm -r <image>
> Oh kay... I just had the impression that dirvish-expire does some magic
> to keep the links consistent because it seems to take quite a lot of
> time to expire one backup step.

Just make sure you don't 'rm' your most recent image, as dirvish needs
it as a base for subsequent backups.

> Thats true but here I use a rented rootserver in our colo datacenter (to
> keep the backup traffic mostly where it wont kill our uplink) and
> upgrade options for that server are either not available or extremely
> expensive.

You might want to take a look at faster-dupemerge
(http://www.furryterror.org/~zblaxell/projects/dupemerge/faster-dupemerge).
It's been mentioned before on this list and can potentially free up
many GB's...

http://www.dirvish.org/pipermail/dirvish/2005-November/000525.html

 - Darren