[PLUG] Anyone know of "lossy" version-control software?

[Tim]

> So what I want is some sort of archival or version-control software that
> can be configured for the programmed destruction of old versions and
> keeping selected samples. Back-up software sort of does this and many
> packages will backup to a file, but it seems like overkill to have to
> setup and configure Bacula or Amanda just to manage a handful of files.

I'm thinking backup software is the direction you should lead your
search in.  While many featureful backup packages may be a pain to
configure, you should be able to find dozens of lightweight and
flexible ones out there.

For my home use, I use rsync as my backup tool, wrapped up in shell
scripts.  It's primitive, but the --only-write-batch option is nice
for storing incrementals based on some previous snapshot.  I'm pretty
sure there are other packages out there that have taken this approach
and made it more fancy, rdiff-backup being one example
(http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/).

Of course this might require some wrapper scripts, but you might end
up with exactly what you want, rather than something close.

Good luck,
tim