Re: /var/backups

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

Jukka Marin <jmarin%embedtronics.fi@localhost> wrote:

> We are using NetBSD on embedded systems with /var in RAM.  I have had
> /var/backups grow so big that it filled up the entire RAM disk.
> 
> Should I disable the backups completely or is there an automatic
> cleanup system to keep the backup disk usage low?

There's no way to keep only specified number of previous revisions, so
as a workaround you can set backup_uses_rcs=NO in security.conf.

SY, Uwe
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