Stephen Harrington
Very Senior Member
Thanks @Viktor Jaep, my very own Mode!
Possibly a bit more nested than I had in mind - I think I was envisaging not having the “day of week” or “day number” folders at all but rather that each backup would have a folder named for the day/time such as “20230909-143412” and within that folder would be just the 2 .tars for that backup cycle with your standard “basic” naming. These folders would then naturally sort from oldest to newest, and then every once in a while you could just manually delete a whole bunch of the oldest ones (or rename the odd one you wanted to keep as a rollback point)? And you could also see instantly which one you wanted to restore from a list? So a much “flatter” structure I guess is what I was thinking? You could then even optionally auto-prune dated backups older than 7,14,30,60,90 days or whatever?
Anyway, just throwing it out there - what you have looks very functional, but I’m a bit worried that multiple backups in each of the day or day number folders gets tedious to clean up - it may become a bit of a disk-space eating monster!
Possibly a bit more nested than I had in mind - I think I was envisaging not having the “day of week” or “day number” folders at all but rather that each backup would have a folder named for the day/time such as “20230909-143412” and within that folder would be just the 2 .tars for that backup cycle with your standard “basic” naming. These folders would then naturally sort from oldest to newest, and then every once in a while you could just manually delete a whole bunch of the oldest ones (or rename the odd one you wanted to keep as a rollback point)? And you could also see instantly which one you wanted to restore from a list? So a much “flatter” structure I guess is what I was thinking? You could then even optionally auto-prune dated backups older than 7,14,30,60,90 days or whatever?
Anyway, just throwing it out there - what you have looks very functional, but I’m a bit worried that multiple backups in each of the day or day number folders gets tedious to clean up - it may become a bit of a disk-space eating monster!