pbs prune & gc job management inconsistencies

[RolandK]

hi,

i'd be curious why we have gc schedule being stored as a property in datastore.cfg and why there is also some prune-schedule setting there

i would expect that gc scheduling is managed at it's own job instance/level like verify , prune and sync in appropriate cfg files.

is that for historical reason and may change in the future ?

when i open https://192.168.179.15:8007/#pbsDataStores i see tabs for verify, prune and sync jobs, but not for gc jobs

when i open datastore repli_pbs-backup_s740-dad in webui , i also see prune schedule hourly (which isn't true, as it's disabled and prune job is started via script), but in datastore.cfg there is also a daily prune-schedule being listed, which i do not find in the webui at all:

datastore: repli_pbs-backup_s740-dad
comment
path /backup/repli_s740-dad_pbs-backup
prune-schedule daily

in my serialized script for prune/sync/gc/verify i have :

time proxmox-backup-manager sync-job run syncjob-a
time proxmox-backup-manager sync-job run syncjob-b
time proxmox-backup-manager sync-job run ...

time proxmox-backup-manager verify-job run verifyjob-a
time proxmox-backup-manager verify-job run verifyjob-b
time proxmox-backup-manager verify-job run

time proxmox-backup-manager prune-job run prunejob-a
time proxmox-backup-manager prune-job run prunejob-b
time proxmox-backup-manager prune-job run ...

time proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection start datastore-a
time proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection start datastore-b
time proxmox-backup-manager garbage-collection start ....


that's a little bit confusing / inconsistent

 

[RolandK]

mhh, i have no clue where "prune-schedule daily" is coming from in datastore.cfg

i removed the manually started prune job , but the daily prune setting from the datastore.cfg does not appear anywhere in the gui

where does that configuration come from or where is that configured ?

 

[RolandK]

oh, and by the way - i dont't want to appear ungrateful or impatient here.

PBS CLI usage has improved a LOT - i'm very happy that we actually can RUN a job at all from CLI

it's just that typical struggle for perfection which drives us unix/admin people

 

[_gabriel]

mhh, i have no clue where "prune-schedule daily" is coming from in datastore.cfg

edited because was wrong about global prune setting for all Datastores

 

[RolandK]

where do we configure a global prune setting ?

 

[_gabriel]

sorry, missread the Datastores line , this is the list of all Prune jobs.
So, another guess is that the options defined when "Adding Datastore" / tab "Prune Option"

 

[RolandK]

yes, you are correct !

but where can you edit this prune setting afterwards ?

 

[RolandK]

ah, it's a known issue. i found this bugticket: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4374