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Originally Posted by djbaxter

That's actually pretty clever if you have plenty of diskspace.

What would be better is a cron job to delete backups older than X days.

I suppose if you are running a very popular forum and a large database, you would already have the headroom in your account. My database isnt huge but isnt small. And I still have plenty of headroom left on my drives. I run on a basic vps and my backups delete and rewrite each date of the month. I suppose you could just set your date format for day of the week and that way you would be limiting your backup files to 7 total before overwrite. You would just hafta download ftp your weekly backups once a week.