Removing Backups older than 7 Days

rh-xZa2W

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Jun 17, 2020
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Hey,

i have Backups for 2 weeks now and i want to delete Backups older than 7 Days, my Prune Settings are the following:

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When i start the Garbage Collection, i get:

Removed garbage: 0 B
Removed chunks: 0

What i am understanding and doing wrong?

Thanks :)
 
did you run a prune before the garbage collection?
 
I did:
Code:
proxmox-backup-client prune vm/113 --keep-last 200 --repository backups

then:
Code:
proxmox-backup-client garbage-collect --repository backups

and got:
Code:
Removed garbage: 0 B
Removed chunks: 0
 
I had about 500 Backups of the same VM.

On the GUI i see now:

Screenshot_3.png

But not less free Storage. Are they really deleted?
 
please read the docs I linked.. garbage collection will only remove chunks after more than 24h have passed since removing/pruning the last index referencing them.
 
no. just wait a day..
 

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