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Cleanup automatic backups

Open tohn opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

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Feature description

Cleanup automatic backups, so only the latest x (7?) backups are kept.

Why do you want this feature?

If I enable automatic backups, after a while my backup location contains too many files and takes up too much space.

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tohn avatar Feb 23 '24 10:02 tohn

It would be nice to have this as an option not as a fix change. Based on your example 7 backups means maximum 1 week old data. For me when I messed up, one week's backup does not help to find and solve the probelm. (Especially my contacts do not take a ton of space).

Maybe 1 backup for everyday of the "always past week". And for the olders than that, onebyone backup for ever week of the year - Option - to keep? Just and idea. But this would mean a ton a programming a function that keeps keeping and deleting files.... For me it is simpler just to delete after a time manually.

Closing in favor of https://github.com/FossifyOrg/General-Discussion/issues/259

naveensingh avatar Dec 07 '24 11:12 naveensingh