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.

[decker]

Recently syncovery has a simple kind of single file backup based on 2 defined numbers of versions for deleted / undeleted files to keep.

As Mentioned by others since years in many cases users want different time granularity (daily last 2 weeks, weekly for 2 month etc.) for keeping files. They do not always want to store every version of the last 365 changes.

The other side with syncovery is versioning just on the basis of a max number of versions to get a restore is unsafe (to low) or must be oriented towards most volatile files.
In case of the recovery of more than 2 files or a complete folder-structure in a point of time the result of syncovery restore can be correct or just an approximation. You do not know. In case of a folder structure change, I get the recent structure mixed with the old structureS of files only in the deleted folder.