Hi there,
I’m new to restic and trying to set up a backup with a reasonable retention policy. The end goal is to keep one snapshot for the last 3 months and one snapshot for the last 7 days.
The --keep-daily
and --keep-monthly
options are similar enough but they don’t seem to work like I understand the docs:
[root@host ~]# restic forget --keep-daily 7 --dry-run
repository 8c3262dd opened (version 2, compression level auto)
Applying Policy: keep 7 daily snapshots
keep 2 snapshots:
ID Time Host Tags Reasons Paths
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bc4d0e34 2024-06-27 10:31:19 host daily snapshot /tmp/backup
51a86351 2024-06-27 10:50:39 host daily snapshot /tmp/backup
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2 snapshots
Why does it keep both snapshots as daily? They are both from the same day so I would assume restic would delete the older one.