Manual snapshots retention
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@manilx said in Manual snapshots retention:
@Tristis-Oris To be honest, this just opens more "configurations/complications" for a fringe case.....
Manual backups should never be deleted, unless I specifically do that (in an enterprise environment you don't necessarily know why they were made but there certainly was a reason fir them).An information in the dashboard for backups "older" than x days could be interesting, yes.
Right, I think having just a list of Snapshots older then X (that aren't created from a scheduled job) would be beneficial to validate that things aren't getting too long in the tooth.
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Could we have a consensus on how long? That would help to build the feature
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@olivierlambert
for a custom amount of time?) -
If we just want to display it in "Health view" that would be better to have at least a default value we all agree on
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@olivierlambert 30 days seems OK to me.
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@olivierlambert well, 30 days is a super maximum for any real needs to restore anything.
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@olivierlambert I added a response in the hopes that it clarifies the end-goal.
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@olivierlambert I wonder if it would be beneficial to show all snapshots older than 30 days not just ones not created by an automated process. For example what happens if a XO backup job runs, creates a snapshot but the process is interrupted and the job fails. Will the next time the job runs clean up the previous failed jobs snapshot or is there a chance a snapshot could be left behind?
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@flakpyro true, sometimes that happens and they will never be deleted.
I'm don't remember, but maybe such snaspshots not visible as orphaned. -
@flakpyro said in Manual snapshots retention:
@olivierlambert I wonder if it would be beneficial to show all snapshots older than 30 days not just ones not created by an automated process. For example what happens if a XO backup job runs, creates a snapshot but the process is interrupted and the job fails. Will the next time the job runs clean up the previous failed jobs snapshot or is there a chance a snapshot could be left behind?
Garbage collection should be handling this...
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In theory there's no such thing as XO checks. Now for the feature request, I prefer the idea of showing manual leftovers and leave the admin to decide what to do with it
