Subject: Re: bug#47353: Numbered backups also need kept-new-versions else will grow out of control

From: L A Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 06:43:29 -0700

On 2021/03/23 16:43, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Or (info "(coreutils) Backup options") should "admit" that "Numbered
> backups need to be trimmed occasionally by the user, lest the fill up
> the disk."
>   
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Perhaps a scheme, similar, or duplicating that in logrotate would
be useful where older versions can be limited by count and/or age?