Feature Request: Higher limit for available space on backup medium.

[khenty]

Follow-up of #1880

On my installation of backintime-qt, the largest value I can enter for the limit on available backup space is 1000 GB. I propose increasing this limit as a workaround for backintime's maxing out my 12 GB backup drive (100%). It's also possible that there's a bug here. Given that I'm doing daily backups, the backup drive is maxed out about once a week. I correct the problem by manually removing snapshots ("rm -rf SNAPSHOT_PATH [SNAPSHOT_PATH ...]).

diagnostics.txt

[buhtz]

Hello khenty,
thank your for your request.

What do you mean by "maxed out"?

Currently the "limit" can be set to 1.000 GB (~1 TeraByte). The meaning is not a limit, but BIT will start to remove snapshots if there is less than 1.000 GB free on your volume. Do you really want more than 1.000 GB kept free?

How can this help you? How big is one of your snapshots?

As a beginning I would suggest, that you modify your BIT installation by yourself. It is just one line.

backintime/qt/settingsdialog.py

Line 765 in 3e80fee

self.spbFreeSpace.setRange(1, 1000)

There the value 1000 is the limit of the that spinbox. Just put two more 0 to it and let's see if this really helps you.

Regards, Christian