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  1. borg prune visualized
  2. =====================
  3. Assume it is 2016-01-01, today's backup has not yet been made and you have
  4. created at least one backup on each day in 2015 except on 2015-12-19 (no
  5. backup made on that day).
  6. This is what borg prune --keep-daily 14 --keep-monthly 6 would keep.
  7. Backups kept by the --keep-daily rule are marked by a "d" to the right,
  8. backups kept by the --keep-monthly rule are marked by a "m" to the right.
  9. Calendar view
  10. -------------
  11. 2015
  12. January February March
  13. Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
  14. 1 2 3 4 1 1
  15. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  16. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
  17. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
  18. 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
  19. 30 31
  20. April May June
  21. Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  23. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
  24. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
  25. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
  26. 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30m
  27. July August September
  28. Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
  29. 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6
  30. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
  31. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
  32. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
  33. 27 28 29 30 31m 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30m
  34. 31m
  35. October November December
  36. Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
  37. 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
  38. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
  39. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17d18d19 20d
  40. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21d22d23d24d25d26d27d
  41. 26 27 28 29 30 31m 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28d29d30d31d
  42. 30m
  43. List view
  44. ---------
  45. --keep-daily 14 --keep-monthly 6
  46. -------------------------------------------------
  47. 1. 2015-12-31 (2015-12-31 kept by daily rule)
  48. 2. 2015-12-30 1. 2015-11-30
  49. 3. 2015-12-29 2. 2015-10-31
  50. 4. 2015-12-28 3. 2015-09-30
  51. 5. 2015-12-27 4. 2015-08-31
  52. 6. 2015-12-26 5. 2015-07-31
  53. 7. 2015-12-25 6. 2015-06-30
  54. 8. 2015-12-24
  55. 9. 2015-12-23
  56. 10. 2015-12-22
  57. 11. 2015-12-21
  58. 12. 2015-12-20
  59. (no backup made on 2015-12-19)
  60. 13. 2015-12-18
  61. 14. 2015-12-17
  62. Notes
  63. -----
  64. 2015-12-31 is kept due to the --keep-daily 14 rule (because it is applied
  65. first), not due to the --keep-monthly rule.
  66. Because of that, the --keep-monthly 6 rule keeps Nov, Oct, Sep, Aug, Jul and
  67. Jun. December is not considered for this rule, because that backup was already
  68. kept because of the daily rule.
  69. 2015-12-17 is kept to satisfy the --keep-daily 14 rule - because no backup was
  70. made on 2015-12-19. If a backup had been made on that day, it would not keep
  71. the one from 2015-12-17.
  72. We did not include yearly, weekly, hourly, minutely or secondly rules to keep
  73. this example simple. They all work in basically the same way.
  74. The weekly rule is easy to understand roughly, but hard to understand in all
  75. details. If interested, read "ISO 8601:2000 standard week-based year".