prune

NAME

plakar-prune — Prune snapshots according to a policy

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The plakar prune command deletes snapshots from a Plakar repository. Snapshots can be filtered for deletion by age, by tag, or by specifying the snapshot IDs to remove. If no snapshotID are provided, either -older or -tag must be specified to filter the snapshots to delete.

plakar prune supports the location flags documented in plakar-query(7) to precisely select snapshots.

The arguments are as follows:

-apply

Delete matching snapshot. The default is to just show the snapshot that would be removed but not actually execute the operation.

-policy name

Use the given policy. See plakar-policy(1) for how policies are managed.

EXAMPLES

Remove a specific snapshot by ID:

$ plakar prune abc123

Remove snapshots older than 30 days:

$ plakar prune -days 30d

Remove snapshots with a specific tag:

$ plakar prune -tag daily-backup

Remove snapshots older than 1 year with a specific tag:

$ plakar prune -years 1 -tag daily-backup

DIAGNOSTICS

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

0

Command completed successfully.

>0

An error occurred, such as invalid date format or failure to delete a snapshot.

SEE ALSO

plakar(1), plakar-backup(1), plakar-policy(1), plakar-query(7)