Anybody with a delete Backup Group script ?

hvisage

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I've moved/copied backups between datastores for separating their retention/synchronisation rates, and now I need to delete quite a number of backups groups in the various datastores, and well... the GUI doesn't work wonders for my finger tips (touch pad) not my wrists (mouse) and especially my tapping finger.

So: the method seems to be doing a forget on each of the snapshots, OR to do a prune with like --keep-all 1 and then a last forget snapshot. However the part that buggers me is the scripting/grabbing of the snapshot time/date as it's a number in the json, and the text output is well... not quite script friendly, and before I embark on a jq .adventure thought to ask for pre-created scripts if shareable :)
 
FYI commandline option I'll be using for NOW:

Code:
for i in vm/10119 ct/70011 ct/70012 vm/10301 vm/10300 vm/30406
 do
  proxmox-backup-client snapshot list $i | grep Z |\
  awk '{print "proxmox-backup-client forget "$2}' | sh -x
done
 
there is proxmox-backup-debug (a bit like 'pvesh' in PVE - a tool for exploring/debugging the API and other things). curl also makes for a nice API client (especially if you use API tokens) - especially for simple stuff like this.
 
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