XO Tasks - backups just pilling up

[marcoi]

Not sure if this is normal or what. but under Xo Tasks. when i clear the filter i see a lot of tasks from backups. i just delete them but not sure why they are just hanging around.

Backup seem to be normally working.
Xen Orchestra, commit 2bd4e
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[poddingue]

From your screenshot they all finished green, so this doesn't look like the tasks stuck at 97% in https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/10857 a while back.

I don't know how long XO is meant to keep finished backup tasks in that list, or whether they're supposed to clear on their own.

Do they go away after an xo-server restart, or do they come back?

[acebmxer]

@poddingue

Looks like it clears after 30 days... but not the XO Config Cloud backup... This is from XOA..

Just filtered for backup... Oldest is from 7-19-26 oldest backup job 8-31-26.

[marcoi]

as for how long they stay, i been clearing my old ones out manually, so not sure.

[poddingue]

I didn't know, so I went and looked at the code. XO prunes that list in a cleanup step: backup runs are kept for 31 days, and other tasks are kept by count, the newest 1000 (https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/b59c8f3d20954aa1d72e92c1e8f2db635d74fcba/@xen-orchestra/mixins/Tasks.mjs#L119-L127).

You can change both with tasks.gc.keep and tasks.gc.backupKeepDuration in the xo-server config.

As far as I can tell the cleanup runs when xo-server starts, not on a timer, so a long-running XO can collect quite a few before the next restart.

My guess for the Cloud Backup entries @acebmxer still sees after 30 days is that they're kept by count rather than by age.