Add reminder to limit backup lifetime with regular backups

Nigel Metheringham
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README.md
@@ -384,6 +384,15 @@ 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 4 days - 345600 seconds
+gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 345600
+```
+
 ### Restoring an application backup
  
 We will assume that you have installed GitLab from an omnibus package and run
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384	384	0 2 * * * /opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create
385	385	```
386	386
	387	+You may also want to set a limited lifetime for backups to prevent regular
	388	+backups using all your disk space. To do this add the following lines to
	389	+`/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` and reconfigure:-
	390	+
	391	+```
	392	+# limit backup lifetime to 4 days - 345600 seconds
	393	+gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 345600
	394	+```
	395	+
387	396	### Restoring an application backup
388	397
389	398	We will assume that you have installed GitLab from an omnibus package and run
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