Are prune jobs needed if the backup job has retention settings?

dpearceFL

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So I have backup jobs set up on the Proxmox GUI, under Datacenter and backups. Each of these jobs has retention settings defined.

So is setting up a scheduled Prune job in PBS really needed?
 

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