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
1linklocations:

2link  etc:

3link    from: /etc

4link    to: local

5link    options:

6link      forget:

7link        keep-last: 5 # always keep at least 5 snapshots

8link        keep-hourly: 3 # keep 3 last hourly snapshots

9link        keep-daily: 4 # keep 4 last daily snapshots

10link        keep-weekly: 1 # keep 1 last weekly snapshots

11link        keep-monthly: 12 # keep 12 last monthly snapshots

12link        keep-yearly: 7 # keep 7 last yearly snapshots

13link        keep-within: '2w' # keep snapshots from the last 2 weeks