Comment 2 for bug 383867

As a home user, I think 3 months is very long !!
On my side, I was thinking of something more like 1 or 2 weeks, with a daily
save.

2009/6/5 Michael Terry <email address hidden>

> I was thinking along the same lines, but I had hoped that it could be
> done automatically rather than forcing the user to configure it. For
> example, the underlying backup tool duplicity has an option to make a
> new full backup if the previous one is older than X days. We could turn
> this on at some reasonable time (maybe 3 or 6 months).
>
> I haven't done that yet because all of a sudden one of your backups
> would be taking a full day. I was waiting until duplicity got the
> ability to resume from an aborted backup. That way Deja Dup could just
> start a long backup and it wouldn't block the user's ability to get on
> with their life, so they wouldn't care how long it took, in theory.
> Duplicity's maintainer is working on this functionality right now.
>
> Does that sound like a plan?
>
> ** Changed in: deja-dup
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>
> ** Changed in: deja-dup
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: deja-dup
> Importance: Wishlist => Medium
>
> --
> number of backups kept is not configurable
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383867
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