<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Virtual directory expiration</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Autodir HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Directory organization in the real base directory" HREF="dirorg.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Backup support" HREF="backup.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Autodir HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="dirorg.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="backup.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="vdexp" ></A >10. Virtual directory expiration</H1 ><P >When an application tries to access a <EM >virtual directory</EM > in a <EM >virtual base directory</EM >, <EM >Autodir</EM > creates the <EM >virtual directory</EM > in it if it does not exist already and mounts the <EM >real directory</EM > on it from the <EM >real base directory</EM >. Once this is done, a timer is started. If the <EM >virtual directory</EM > is not accessed from the <EM >virtual base directory</EM > by any application for the specified period of time, this directory is removed and the corresponding <EM >real directory</EM > in the <EM >real base directory</EM > is marked for backup.</P ><P >The time period to wait for expiration can be given through a <A HREF="aoptions.html#autodir_t_opt" >command line option</A > to <EM >Autodir</EM >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="dirorg.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="backup.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Directory organization in the real base directory</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Backup support</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >