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Configuration Archival Periodic
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Would like to have a feature that allows for the configuration archival to be set to a periodic time frame. Secondly it would be nice to also have the ability to switch to archive on commit if needed, and then back again. Or even both would be welcome.

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Version
1.2
Is it a breaking change?
Perfectly compatible
Issue type
Feature (new functionality)

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tmartinson created this task.Dec 28 2016, 3:59 AM
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We discussed this long-standing request among maintainers and came to the conclusion that it's probably not a good idea. Commit-triggered archival is always superior since it will never miss any revisions.

One problem that periodic archival would solve is the problem of lost revisions if the storage server is temporarily unavailable. This is better solved by a retry mechanism in the commit-triggered commit archive code. I created a task about that: https://vyos.dev/T8462