On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 02:18:44PM +0200, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:

Am Freitag, 5. Juli 2013, 11:17:07 schrieb Matthias G. Eckermann:

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Or to put it differently: Snapper should delete older snapshots much more frequently and aggressivly. [...]

Yes. But how? I have been struggeling with its configuration for weeks because it takes days to check the effect of configuration changes. While the NUMBER_LIMIT roughly works as I expected (pre and posts count as 1),

No, pre and post should not count as one. But the algorithm deletes pre and post together, so a limit of 1 and 2 might appear to be identical.

TIMELINE_LIMIT_* does not: TIMELINE_LIMIT_HOURLY=5 keeps the last five snapshots and not only five hourly snapshots per day. And although I set TIMELINE_LIMIT_DAILY=5 and the rest 0, there are still snapshots made eight days ago (five hourly and five daily).

Could be because the cleanup algorithm only runs once a day. But I see that this needs better documentation. Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@suse.de> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org