[Borgbackup] Issues understanding prune 'keep' rules

Bzzzz lazyvirus at gmx.com
Wed Nov 18 19:00:56 EST 2020


On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:47:17 -0500
Dan Christensen <jdc at uwo.ca> wrote:

> (In any case, I don't think it matters too much.  Borg is so space
> efficient that you should just keep lots of history and not worry
> too much about which ones get pruned.  But it's fun to think about.)

Agreed, at home I keep 3 whole months (sometimes with 2 or 3 backups
per days, sometimes only once a week - coming to an average of one/day)
of whole systems (for a very easy _tested_ reconstruction) - for 5
machines, the overhead is only around 180~220 GB on a total of 1.3 TB.

Jean-Yves


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