Advanced Versioning

[pbouvier]

Greetings,

I am looking to see if Syncovery can support what I consider advanced archiving/versioning of backups. Today, I use a bash script to clean up older files. This is what I would love to be able to do straight from the Syncovery console:

- Keep daily backups for a week, then
- Keep only Sunday backups for 2 months (or 60 days)
- Keep only Sunday backups for 2 years

Hopefully that makes sense

Thanks,
P.

[User]

I fully second this suggestion.

Maybe similar to CrashPlan's very sophisticated "Retention"-System.

Or similar to Duplicati:
The “smart” retention is basically a custom retention policy of 1W:1D,4W:1W,12M:1M. After a backup is completed, the retention policy is evaluated to decide what backup versions to delete. This particular example policy basically says:
In the most recent 1 week, keep only 1 backup version per day.
Then, In the most recent 4 weeks, keep only 1 backup per week.
Then, In the most recent 12 months, keep only 1 backup per month.