Bug 31506 - Add "backup days" to /etc/koha/koha-common.conf
Summary: Add "backup days" to /etc/koha/koha-common.conf
Status: NEW
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Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Packaging (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low normal
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2022-09-01 13:06 UTC by Magnus Enger
Modified: 2024-08-13 13:01 UTC (History)
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Description Magnus Enger 2022-09-01 13:06:35 UTC 
koha-run-backups takes the --days argument to say how many days of backup we should keep around. The value of this is set to two in the default /etc/cron.daily/koha-common that is installed by the Debian packages. I routinely increase this value to keep more backup. 

One thing that can happen now is that I want to create fresh backups for all the sites on a server before doing an upgrade. So I run koha-run-backups manually, but I forget about the --days argument. Result: I loose a lot of backup! 

It would be nice if the default for --days could be set somewhere like /etc/koha/koha-common.conf. That way we could run koha-run-backups both from cron and manually, without the --days argument, and keep the same amount of backups either way. If --days is given as an argument, it should override the default.