policy

NAME

plakar-policy — Manage Plakar retention policies

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The plakar policy command manages the retention policies for plakar-prune(1).

The configuration consists in a set of named entries, each of them describing a retention policy.

The subcommands are as follows:

add name [option=value ...]

Create a new source entry identified by name. Additional parameters can be set by adding option=value parameters.

rm name

Remove the policy identified by name from the configuration.

set name [option=value ...]

Set the option to value for the source identified by name. Multiple option/value pairs can be specified.

show [-ini] [-json] [-yaml] [name ...]

Display the current sources configuration. -ini, -json and -yaml control the output format, which is YAML by default.

unset name [option ...]

Remove the option for the policy identified by name.

The available options as described in plakar-query(7): each option corresponds the similarly named flag.

EXIT STATUS

The plakar-policy utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES

Create a policy ‘weekly’ that keeps one backup per week and discards backups older than three months:

$ plakar policy add weekly
$ plakar policy set weekly since='3 months'
$ plakar policy set weekly per-week=1

Prune snapshots accordingly to the ‘weekly’ policy:

$ plakar prune -policy weekly

SEE ALSO

plakar(1), plakar-prune(1)