From 3ee019761aff9deecef8096b3eb2a1a57bf02a8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Wienke Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 19:40:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify prune behavior for different archive contents In the online help, explain that archives with different contents need to be separated via the prefix when pruning to achieve a desired retention policy per archive set. Relates to #1824. --- borg/archiver.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/borg/archiver.py b/borg/archiver.py index f417c245f..07086709b 100644 --- a/borg/archiver.py +++ b/borg/archiver.py @@ -1536,6 +1536,8 @@ class Archiver: considered for deletion and only those archives count towards the totals specified by the rules. Otherwise, *all* archives in the repository are candidates for deletion! + There is no automatic distinction between archives representing different + contents. These need to be distinguished by specifying matching prefixes. """) subparser = subparsers.add_parser('prune', parents=[common_parser], description=self.do_prune.__doc__,