[Box Backup] trigger housekeeping

[Andreas Schrafl]

Ben Summers wrote:
> 
> On 1 Sep 2004, at 20:58, Andreas Schrafl wrote:
> 
>> I reduced the amount of my soft and hardlimit and hoped to get the olf 
>> files deleted. the next backup run said i'd have so add more storage 
>> but didn't delet any old files.
>>
>> when does housekeeping run?
> 
> 
> Every x seconds, where x is specified in bbstored.conf as 
> TimeBetweenHousekeeping.
> 
had it on the standard 900 so every 15 minutes. it's now more than a day 
that I reduced the limit and it is still like not deleted anything.

> 
>> how can I trigger it?
> 
> 
> Send a -HUP signal to bbstored.
> 
tried this (kill -HUP processid) for bbstored and housekeeping but 
didn't change anything

> What do you think should have happened when you changed the limits. What 
> would you like to have done? How would you like to have controlled this?
> 
I'd just like to control this on the server. something like:
bbstoredhousekeeping accountid
or
bbstoredhousekeeping

would clean the files that can be deleted. perhaps I would be possible 
to specify the files to delete (old or deleted or both). I don't even 
need this on the client but havinig it there would be great to.

I run 0.7 version and notyet 0.7PLUS

> I have server support for adding a flag to certain files and objects 
> which means "delete as soon as possible", that is, when they become an 
> old version or are marked as deleted by the client. I am intending to 
> expose this functionality to the user via bbackupquery.
> 
>>
>> thanks for a great backup solution
>> (I'm trying to make a windows client that is usable for "normal" 
>> windows users)
> 
> 
> I'm glad you're finding it useful!
> 
> Ben
> 
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