for some reason I just don’t get the language of the prune dialogue. I can’t wrap my head around it:
I run a daily backup and want to keep 7 copies. Would this be the correct setting?
Set it like this:
It will be transformed to the following command line options: -keep 0:7 -keep 0:7 -keep 0:7 -a. Edit the prune job, and remove the redundant keep options.
ok, thanks will do.
but isn’t there a better way to formulate this? what, in this case, is “every zero day” supposed to mean?
Zero is a special case here. It means don’t keep any copies beyond Y days old.
Otherwise, you can read it like this: If older than Y days, keep 1 copy every X days.