* Charles Duffy <cduffy < at > spamcop.net> [2006-01-01]:
Ben Escoto wrote:
For the people that voted for repository editing, what did you want
exactly?
As for me, I want the ability to merge old increments, such that beyond
a given point I can abandon daily increments and store only weekly
increments; and beyond that only monthly. As the dataset I work with has
frequent enough changes that the same regions will be modified multiple
times during the course of a week, such combination will indeed decrease
(in some cases nontrivially) the amount of data being archived.
Also more generally, why do you want to edit an existing repository?
Is it to save disk space?
Yes. I'm storing backups from potentially a very large number of remote
systems, and space is very much a potential issue.
Ditto - to both points bove. (I didn't vote though...)
Hans
