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README: Add reminder/info about limiting backup lifetime with regular backups I've added an extra paragraph to the README.md to aid with limiting the keep time of backups when setting up a regular backup schedule.

Merge branch 'nmeth_doc_tweaks' into 'master'
README: Add reminder/info about limiting backup lifetime with regular backups I've added an extra paragraph to the README.md to aid with limiting the keep time of backups when setting up a regular backup schedule.
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@@ -359,6 +359,15 @@ There, add the following line to schedule the backup for everyday at 2 AM:
 0 2 * * * /opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create
 ```
  
+You may also want to set a limited lifetime for backups to prevent regular
+backups using all your disk space.  To do this add the following lines to
+`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` and reconfigure:-
+
+```
+# limit backup lifetime to 7 days - 604800 seconds
+gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 604800
+```
+
 ### Restoring an application backup
  
 We will assume that you have installed GitLab from an omnibus package and run
...	...	@@ -359,6 +359,15 @@ There, add the following line to schedule the backup for everyday at 2 AM:
359	359	0 2 * * * /opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create
360	360	```
361	361
	362	+You may also want to set a limited lifetime for backups to prevent regular
	363	+backups using all your disk space. To do this add the following lines to
	364	+`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` and reconfigure:-
	365	+
	366	+```
	367	+# limit backup lifetime to 7 days - 604800 seconds
	368	+gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 604800
	369	+```
	370	+
362	371	### Restoring an application backup
363	372
364	373	We will assume that you have installed GitLab from an omnibus package and run
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