Prune Jobs Not Working

[Teapot]

Hello,
I created prune jobs and run manual. They are not removing old backups.

root@pbs:~# proxmox-backup-manager versions
proxmox-backup-server 2.4.2-2 running version: 2.4.2

I set prune to 15 days;

Older than 15 days backups;

 

[dcsapak]

i think this is a misunderstanding how the prune options work

keep-daily 15 does not say keep backups from the last 15 days, but up to 15 backups from different days
check out the simulator, there you can play with it: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/prune-simulator/index.html

 

[Teapot]

i think this is a misunderstanding how the prune options work

keep-daily 15 does not say keep backups from the last 15 days, but up to 15 backups from different days
check out the simulator, there you can play with it: https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/prune-simulator/index.html

Thank you, that's different than I thought.
But how can I clean the backups of unused +15 days VMs?

 

[dcsapak]

this concrete example is not directly possible with the existing prune options
you'd have to manually go in and clean them

 

[Teapot]

this concrete example is not directly possible with the existing prune options
you'd have to manually go in and clean them

I can try something with cron.
Is it safe delete from;
/mnt/datastore/<DISKNAME>/ns/<NSNAME>/vm/<VMID>

 

[dcsapak]

yeah that folder contains the indexes that represent a snapshot, if you delete those, the backups are gone
note that if you do it that way (instead of over the api/cli) there is no safeguard against parallel access (e.g. if you are restoring from such a backup and your cron script removes the snapshot)