Clarification on rotation/retention of backup

You can configure how restic groups snapshots together, by using restic forget --dry-run --group-by host it will group together snapshots of different directories and apply the policy together.

Make plenty use of --dry-run while developing retention policies :slight_smile:

Did you read the whole section on forgetting backups in the manual yet? Removing backup snapshots — restic 0.16.3 documentation

Is there anything unclear or missing?

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