PVE Backup Job Retention vs. PBS Prune Job

[thomas-hn]

Hello,

my PVE uses the PBS for storing the backups.
To limit the diskspace consumption of my automatically created VM/LXC backups, I would like to delete them after some time using some kind of retention policy.
To configure this I could use the Backup Job Retention settings in PVE or a Prune Job in PBS with its retention settings.

Which way is the preferred one?
Are there any benefits or drawbacks between the different options?
How do you configure it on your systems?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Thomas

 

[thomas-hn]

Really no recommendations here?

 

[fabian]

you can configure either or both, the more aggressive one will "win". it really depends on your use case which one works better.