linkForget/Prune Policies

Autorestic supports declaring snapshot policies for location to avoid keeping old snapshot around if you don't need them.

This is based on Restic's snapshots policies, and can be enabled for each location as shown below:

Note This is a full example, of course you also can specify only one of them

.autorestic.yml
1linkversion: 2

2link

3linklocations:

4link  etc:

5link    from: /etc

6link    to: local

7link    options:

8link      forget:

9link        keep-last: 5 # always keep at least 5 snapshots

10link        keep-hourly: 3 # keep 3 last hourly snapshots

11link        keep-daily: 4 # keep 4 last daily snapshots

12link        keep-weekly: 1 # keep 1 last weekly snapshots

13link        keep-monthly: 12 # keep 12 last monthly snapshots

14link        keep-yearly: 7 # keep 7 last yearly snapshots

15link        keep-within: '2w' # keep snapshots from the last 2 weeks

linkGlobally

You can specify global forget policies that would be applied to all locations:

.autorestic.yml
1linkversion: 2

2link

3linkglobal:

4link  forget:

5link    keep-daily: 30

6link    keep-weekly: 52

linkAutomatically forget after backup

You can also configure autorestic to automatically run the forget command for you after every backup. You can do that by specifying the forget option.

.autorestic.yml
1linkversion: 2

2link

3linklocations:

4link  etc:

5link    from: /etc

6link    to: local

7link    forget: prune # Or only "yes" if you don't want to prune

8link    options:

9link      forget:

10link        keep-last: 5