Manual snapshots retention
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Would be nice to get global setting, how long to keep manual snapshots. Or maybe job rule to create a schedule task.
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So you mean, for the entire infrastructure, having a "garbage collector" that will automatically remove snapshots older than XXX ?
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@olivierlambert exactly.
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Wouldn't this be incredibly dangerous?
While I wouldn't be opposed to seeing a list of all VM's with manually created snapshots, I wouldn't want the system automatically deleting a snapshot that I made, because I might have need that snapshot for forensic and investigation purposes or some other legal requirement.
Not that I have that requirement today, but it's plausible that as an organization it could happen.
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@DustinB well yes, it required some protection flag.
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I have often thought this might be something worth having in the health check area. Coming from VMware we used to frequently run a tool called "RVTools" that could show you old snapshots that may have been forgotten about or snapshots that were created by a failed backup job that were not removed properly. This would be useful to have to find snapshots like that and remove them before they become a problem.
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Well, I'm not against that idea @flakpyro but we'd probably need some specification on what would be expected
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Im not sure what the best criteria would be for listing the snapshot on the health check page. Perhaps if the snapshot is over 30 days old? There is already "Too many snapshots" (Not sure what counts as too many?) and "Orphaned VMs snapshot" perhaps just simply another section called "Old Snapshots"?
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Sure but it's all about discussing what would be the "best criteria"
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Any snapshots from backup tasks should be protected from retention. Snapshots from removed backup tasks already visible at backup page.
When and after creating manual snapshot, should be an option to protect it from retention. And for batch snapshots maybe also? Kind of checkbox inside dropdown.We use SH only for experiments\upgrades, so never care about. 30 days that already too late to use any restore (we still have backup). So usually i search them after few days via
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@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.
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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?
