Some weeks ago I noticed that one of my backup servers was not removing the old backup generations it was making. It had over 18 months worth of daily backups, done with rsync and “cp -al”. This is not the world’s greatest backup system, but that’s entirely irrelevant for this rant. The cron job that would do that did not exist: I had forgotten to enable it. So I ran it by hand. Then fixed it, whe
