Dear Maintainer,

I have an issue with old backups not deleted consistently when
BM_ARCHIVE_TTL is reached. I am using incremental backups
(BM_ARCHIVE_METHOD="tarball-incremental"). The bug arises
when BM_ARCHIVE_TTL is reached for a "master" backup. The backup
is deleted but backup-manager does not delete all the incremental
backups between it and the next master, even though they have become
useless without the master. That uses up useful space on the backup
device.

Expected behaviour: automated deletion of a "master" backup should
also delete all the "incremental" backups between it and the next
master.

Many thanks in advance,

mathieu

tags 784140 +moreinfo
thanks

Hi. I just fixed

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784446

and having looked at the code it's not obvious to me how this reported
issue could happen. Can you elaborate? Are you consistently seeing it?
If you want to try the latest candidate package, it lives at

  ssh://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/backup-manager.git