Looking for environment variables

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I am trying to find the doc that relates to the environment variables bellow. For some reason I am unable to find any mention of them.

RETENTION_YEARS: '0'
RETENTION_MONTHS: '12'
RETENTION_WEEKS: '5'
RETENTION_DAYS: '7'
RETENTION_HOURS: '120'

I wanted to change the above with en env for --keep-within to replace the above now that I better understand how retention works but as I said, I see no mention of any of the above.

Any help would be welcome. Thanks!

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I might be wrong but a quick grep of the restic repo shows no signs of the above variables so I’m guessing they are no longer valid.

Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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Environment variables are listed in the documentation. As far as I know there are no envvars which apply to prune rules; none of those are envvars I recognise.

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What made you think they ever existed in restic in the first place?

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Hi @rawtaz @ProactiveServices ,

Thank you both for your help.

@ProactiveServices , how I missed that section of a doc is a mystery. thanks for pointing it out!

@rawtaz , you are absolutely right. I got confused between existing env vars and the ones I had created for myself a while ago. This is my actual command which makes far more sense now.

  restic forget --cache-dir ${cache_dir} \
                --keep-tag critical \
                --keep-tag archive \
                --keep-yearly $RETENTION_YEARS \
                --keep-monthly $RETENTION_MONTHS \
                --keep-weekly $RETENTION_WEEKS \
                --keep-daily $RETENTION_DAYS \
                --keep-hourly $RETENTION_HOURS \
                --prune 1> $maintenance_output 2> $maintenance_failure

Sorry for the confusion and thanks again for your help.

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