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[Vlad <question147281@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #147281 on sbackup changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/147281

    Status: Answered => Open

Vlad is still having a problem:
Make sense.

Thanks

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 22:07 +0000, Jean-Peer Lorenz wrote:

> Your question #147281 on sbackup changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/sbackup/+question/147281
> 
>     Status: Open => Answered
> 
> Jean-Peer Lorenz proposed the following answer:
> Hello Vlad,
> 
> thanks for choosing sbackup and asking this question. I suppose you use
> sbackup 0.11.x? No, purge is performed only after a sucessful backup.
> Purpose of this implementation is to ensure to keep at least one
> sucessful backup. Consider the case of purging your old backups before
> creating a new one - and this new one fails. You'd end with *no* backup
> at all. In order to avoid such cases, purging is only performed after
> sucessful creation of new one. So, in fact there is no way to make
> scheduled backups if you don't have space for at least 2 full snapshots.
> 
> HTH,
> Jean-Peer.
>

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