I did not think of it this way and it is a very valid point, but I still think
that most likely you would have a backup already on tape if need be and haveing
space available for writing rhather than having no disk space for live data is
much more important than a snap, but thats my opinion. I think it certainly
should be an option.
:)
Chris
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Darren J Moffat wrote:
Krzys wrote:
It would be also nice that if you have many snapshoots and you do run out
of space that the oldest snapshoot would be automatically removed untill
space is freed up. I did setup this snashoot that is beiing made every
minute, then every hour, day and a month, and I finally got to the point
where I did run out of space, olders snashoots were not removed space was
gone and server could not be used. I was just testing this backup and no
harm was done but I think haveing space is the most important, snapshoots
are not as critical as beeing able to write to a disk... but hey. just a
suggestion.
I really wouldn't want that policy. Sometimes the oldest snapshot is the
most valuable one of all because they are the "golden egg" that started
everything. Though it really depends on what you are using snapshots for. I
certainly wouldn't support this policy being the default.
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Darren J Moffat
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