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- borg prune visualized
- =====================
- Assume it is 2016-01-01, today's backup has not yet been made, you have
- created at least one backup on each day in 2015 except on 2015-12-19 (no
- backup made on that day), and you started backing up with borg on
- 2015-01-01.
- This is what borg prune --keep-daily 14 --keep-monthly 6 --keep-yearly 1
- would keep.
- Backups kept by the --keep-daily rule are marked by a "d" to the right,
- backups kept by the --keep-monthly rule are marked by a "m" to the right,
- and backups kept by the --keep-yearly rule are marked by a "y" to the
- right.
- Calendar view
- -------------
- 2015
- January February March
- Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
- 1y 2 3 4 1 1
- 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
- 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
- 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
- 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
- 30 31
- April May June
- Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
- 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
- 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
- 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
- 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
- 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30m
- July August September
- Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
- 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
- 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
- 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
- 27 28 29 30 31m 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30m
- 31m
- October November December
- Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
- 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
- 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
- 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14 15 16 17d18d19 20d
- 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 21d22d23d24d25d26d27d
- 26 27 28 29 30 31m 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 28d29d30d31d
- 30m
- List view
- ---------
- --keep-daily 14 --keep-monthly 6 --keep-yearly 1
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- 1. 2015-12-31 (2015-12-31 kept (2015-12-31 kept
- 2. 2015-12-30 by daily rule) by daily rule)
- 3. 2015-12-29 1. 2015-11-30 1. 2015-01-01 (oldest)
- 4. 2015-12-28 2. 2015-10-31
- 5. 2015-12-27 3. 2015-09-30
- 6. 2015-12-26 4. 2015-08-31
- 7. 2015-12-25 5. 2015-07-31
- 8. 2015-12-24 6. 2015-06-30
- 9. 2015-12-23
- 10. 2015-12-22
- 11. 2015-12-21
- 12. 2015-12-20
- (no backup made on 2015-12-19)
- 13. 2015-12-18
- 14. 2015-12-17
- Notes
- -----
- 2015-12-31 is kept due to the --keep-daily 14 rule (because it is applied
- first), not due to the --keep-monthly or --keep-yearly rule.
- The --keep-yearly 1 rule does not consider the December 31st backup because it
- has already been kept due to the daily rule. There are no backups available
- from previous years, so the --keep-yearly target of 1 backup is not satisfied.
- Because of this, the 2015-01-01 archive (the oldest archive available) is kept.
- The --keep-monthly 6 rule keeps Nov, Oct, Sep, Aug, Jul and Jun. December is
- not considered for this rule, because that backup was already kept because of
- the daily rule.
- 2015-12-17 is kept to satisfy the --keep-daily 14 rule - because no backup was
- made on 2015-12-19. If a backup had been made on that day, it would not keep
- the one from 2015-12-17.
- We did not include weekly, hourly, minutely or secondly rules to keep this
- example simple. They all work in basically the same way.
- The weekly rule is easy to understand roughly, but hard to understand in all
- details. If interested, read "ISO 8601:2000 standard week-based year".
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