Annotate snapshots?

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Is it possible to add descriptions (a sentence or two) to (some) snapshots?

Some snapshots are important, and I’d like add a description to them (and also protect them from policy deletion). There are tags, but tags are not suitable for descriptions. Also tags are used mainly for “organizing” snapshots.

Any ideas?

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So far tags are the only way to add additional information to a snapshot. Adding a description is tracked in Option to add description to snapshot · Issue #2376 · restic/restic · GitHub

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For some inspiration about possible restic development considering these requests, you could take a look at the following rustic options

        --description <DESCRIPTION>    Add description to snapshot                    
        --description-from <FILE>      Add description to snapshot from file      
        --delete-never                 Mark snapshot as uneraseable                   
        --delete-after <DURATION>      Mark snapshot to be deleted after given duration (e.g. 10d)

which add a delete and description field to the snapshot json.

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This is great! I wonder how you would display the description and “never delete” flags with rustic?

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rustic snapshots --long or rustic snapshots --json (restic, however, currently completely ignores these additional fields)

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Thanks again!