[SOLVED] Pruning seems not to prune: Keep last = 3, but more than 11 snapshots are kept

[Rainerle]

Hi,

this is my setup for the Prune & GC job:



But even though running manually it does not remove older snapshots....




Is this probably a permission problem?


Thanks
Rainer

 

[dcsapak]

what does the prune task log say?

 

[Rainerle]

This is strange...

Proxmox
Backup Server 1.0-5
()
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: Starting datastore prune on store "pve-infra-onsite"
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: task triggered by schedule 'daily'
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: retention options: --keep-last 55 --keep-hourly 48 --keep-daily 7
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: Starting prune on store "pve-infra-onsite" group "vm/102"
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: keep vm/102/2020-12-02T20:16:36Z
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: keep vm/102/2020-12-02T22:54:10Z
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: keep vm/102/2020-12-02T23:40:16Z
2020-12-10T00:00:00+01:00: keep vm/102/2020-12-03T18:00:01Z

 

[dcsapak]

can you post the content of '/etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg' ?

 

[Rainerle]

I just edited the config again in the WebUI and saved it.

So it might have looked differently before:

root@pbs02:~# cat /etc/proxmox-backup/datastore.cfg
datastore: pve-infra-onsite
        comment PVE Cluster infra - On-Site backup for quick restores only
        gc-schedule 00:00
        keep-last 3
        path /mnt/datastore/datastore1
        prune-schedule 02:30
root@pbs02:~#

There is no button to start the Prune Job from the WebUI...

Rescheduled:

2020-12-11T09:16:00+01:00: Starting datastore prune on store "pve-infra-onsite"
2020-12-11T09:16:00+01:00: task triggered by schedule '09:16'
2020-12-11T09:16:00+01:00: retention options: --keep-last 3
2020-12-11T09:16:00+01:00: Starting prune on store "pve-infra-onsite" group "vm/102"
...

Now it looks correct. And it removed the snapshots...

I installed from the ISO, configured it and recently upgraded to 1.0-5. No idea if I can reproduce this somehow...