[Box Backup-commit] #52: Unable to control the maintenance of old vs. deleted files

[Box Backup]

#52: Unable to control the maintenance of old vs. deleted files
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 Reporter:  chris                                                        |       Owner:  chris
     Type:  defect                                                       |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  major                                                        |   Milestone:  0.12 
Component:  bbackupd                                                     |     Version:  trunk
 Keywords:  backup old deleted housekeeping disk space cleanup snapshot  |  
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 Tom Albers writes:

 Recently I had to retrieve an older version of a folder, but I could not
 because there were no older versions available. Running info resulted in
 the following:

 {{{
                   Account ID: 00000001
               Last object ID: 8009785
                  Blocks used: 51199878 (99999.76Mb)
     Blocks used by old files: 0 (0.00Mb)
 Blocks used by deleted files: 27961849 (54612.99Mb)
   Blocks used by directories: 233209 (455.49Mb)
             Block soft limit: 51200000 (100000.00Mb)
             Block hard limit: 64000000 (125000.00Mb)
          Client store marker: 1226809601724028
 }}}

 So all space is occupied by current files and deleted files. As stuff
 moves pretty quickly on that server, a lot of info goes to the deleted
 section. But part of that is not interesting
 anymore, but it is kept in the backup for ever.

 Would it be possible to say: I want 20GB for deleted, 20GB for old and
 60GB for current? Or would it be possible to purge the deleted files if
 they are deleted longer then a week ago?

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Ticket URL: </trac/ticket/52>
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