Two questions

[AdamAnon]

Greetings!

Two questions.

Do I have to have three time intervals to specify a custom strategy? Can I have just one? I want to run backups every two hours and I want to keep all the backups for the first 30 days and then simply one backup per day until disk space runs out. So that would be simply

--strategy 30:1

Is that right?

Can I manually delete some older or the oldest backups or will it break the functionality of the script?

Thank you!

[MagnusLevein]

As no one else has given you any answer, I can comment your second question: according to my experience with the script you can delete older backups without breaking anything. Thanks to the use of hard links, the filesystem itself handles the difficult part of the story. However, I would recommend you to update the symlink latest if you want to delete the newest backup.

[AdamAnon]

Thanks :)