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
	@@ -384,6 +384,15 @@ There, add the following line to schedule the backup for everyday at 2 AM:		@@ -384,6 +384,15 @@ There, add the following line to schedule the backup for everyday at 2 AM:
384	0 2 * * * /opt/gitlab/bin/gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create	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	### Restoring an application backup	396	### Restoring an application backup
388		397
389	We will assume that you have installed GitLab from an omnibus package and run	398	We will assume that you have installed GitLab from an omnibus package and run