Versioning in Nextcloud

Felipe_Schossler · November 27, 2017, 12:35pm

Hello folks, i don’t understand how to works versioning(even seeing the documentation) in Nextcloud and i would know if exists a way to configure the versioning in Nextcloud 12 for never exclude the versions…

Thanks to everyone.

tflidd · November 28, 2017, 9:17pm

What do you mean by “never exclude the versions”? You want to keep all versions?

To avoid any auto-deletion, you must set the variable in your config.php to disabled:

github.com

nextcloud/server/blob/master/config/config.sample.php#L571


* * ``auto``
*     default setting. Automatically expire versions according to expire
*     rules. Please refer to :doc:`../configuration_files/file_versioning` for
*     more information.
* * ``D, auto``
*     keep versions at least for D days, apply expire rules to all versions
*     that are older than D days
* * ``auto, D``
*     delete all versions that are older than D days automatically, delete
*     other versions according to expire rules
* * ``D1, D2``
*     keep versions for at least D1 days and delete when exceeds D2 days
* * ``disabled``
*     versions auto clean disabled, versions will be kept forever
*
* Defaults to ``auto``
*/
'versions_retention_obligation' => 'auto',


/**
* Nextcloud Verifications

Versions is a convenient way to get old versions of a file back. However, this is no mechanism I would rely on, always keep a backup (though it is harder to restore from).