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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Keep last 3 nightly builds (tarballs) around
	ifpossible?
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 17:24:12 -0700
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Ian Pratt wrote:

>>Was wondering if it would be possible to keep around more 
>>than one day's worth of unstable (and possibly testing) 
>>tarballs? Perhaps 2, or even 3?
> 
> 
> Are you talking src, binaries or both?

I was talking src, but I expect other people have different
needs(?). Both would be very handy, of course.

> I've updated the script to rename the previous night's builds to
> xen-2.0-install.1.tgz  the night before to .2 etc. It keeps the last
> three builds.

Excellent! Many thanks..

> I guess I should probably switch to using dates as snapshot identifiers,
> but that requires more thought.

The above works (consistent with usual logging backups
etc (syslog et al).

thanks,
Nivedita