Restic forget does not remove old snapshots

I have one host where my restic cronjob does nor remove old snapshots like on my other hosts:

root@fex01# restic forget --prune --tag fex --host fex01 --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4
Applying Policy: keep 7 daily, 4 weekly snapshots

root@fex01:~# restic snapshots --tag fex -c
repository e18760de opened (version 2, compression level auto)
ID        Time                 Host             Tags
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52ff0e8a  2024-05-26 01:01:14  fex01.belwue.de  fex
2240442c  2024-06-02 01:01:13  fex01.belwue.de  fex
b1a8520b  2024-06-05 01:02:07  fex01.belwue.de  fex
a5c74ba0  2024-06-06 01:02:07  fex01.belwue.de  fex
09c716aa  2024-06-07 01:02:09  fex01.belwue.de  fex
3c1a6331  2024-06-08 01:01:50  fex01.belwue.de  fex
5527fbbb  2024-06-09 01:01:54  fex01.belwue.de  fex
040379bc  2024-06-10 01:01:29  fex01.belwue.de  fex
06dabbea  2024-06-11 01:01:46  fex01.belwue.de  fex
affb04f0  2024-06-11 09:07:57  fex01.belwue.de  fex
bf6f7030  2024-06-11 09:14:36  fex01.belwue.de  fex
fe9637aa  2024-06-12 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
803de492  2024-06-13 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
b4fca801  2024-06-14 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
d938e758  2024-06-15 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
79500bcd  2024-06-16 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
b4f42e08  2024-06-17 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
ead2cb15  2024-06-18 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
c25c8306  2024-06-19 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
b181f201  2024-06-20 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
3cfd8cf5  2024-06-21 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
eff41a0c  2024-06-22 01:01:02  fex01.belwue.de  fex
1613b078  2024-06-23 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
2d508b5d  2024-06-24 01:01:01  fex01.belwue.de  fex
d92e228c  2024-06-24 14:25:42  fex01.belwue.de  fex
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25 snapshots

There should be only 7 daily and 4 weekly snapshots left?
Or what is my mistake?

Found it by myself: FQDN vs short hostname!

restic forget --prune --tag fex --host fex01.belwue.de --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4

does the job :slight_smile:

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