[borgbackup] Pruning question

[Alex Gorbachev]

Hi Thomas,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Thomas Waldmann <tw at waldmann-edv.de> wrote:

> On 09/24/2015 04:06 PM, Alex Gorbachev wrote:
> > Good day, seeing odd behavior with pruning:
> >
> > borg prune -v  --keep-daily=6 -p vault1 /vault/repo1
> > Keeping archive: vault1-2015-09-23-0900               Wed Sep 23
> > 23:34:55 2015
> > Keeping archive: vault1-2015-09-21-1017               Tue Sep 22
> > 00:09:54 2015
> > Keeping archive: vault1-2015-09-20-1136               Mon Sep 21
> > 04:34:15 2015
> > Pruning archive: vault1-2015-09-22-1110               Wed Sep 23
> > 01:57:36 2015
> >
> > Since 9/22 was two days ago why are we pruning it?
>
> Is that archive list complete?
>

Yes, these are all the backups


>
> Did you use --prefix=vault1- ?
>

I think the -p vault1 is the same as --prefix, at least as per documentation


>
> Pruning depends on all the archive timestamps (that match the given
> prefix OR all archives if you give none).
>

That is what I assumed - but doing pruning on September 24 and it is
deleting an archive with the timestamp of September 23, this is what
confused me.

Thanks,
Alex


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