backup times

[mason64]

Hey,

Am think of being stupid and struggling to work out the backup times i want to be able to backup up daily twice a day. once a week and once a month also keep 6 months of all of these, can i do all this in one backup or do i need to create different back ups.

sorry i just cant get my head around what i need to set - i am backing up 6 VM's

Thanks for any help and sorry for sounding stupid

 

[Onslow]

Hi. Everyday (or two each day) backup also cover a weekly and monthly backups, so there is no need to create additional backup jobs.

The schema of keeping them you may work out using the Prune Simulator at https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/prune-simulator/index.html

 

[SteveITS]

Notably for PBS retention the settings are additive/sequential. So 15 daily plus 3 weekly keeps 18 backups.