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.TH BORG-PRUNE 1 "2017-06-18" "" "borg backup tool"
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.SH NAME
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borg-prune \- Prune repository archives according to specified rules
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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borg [common options] prune <options> REPOSITORY
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The prune command prunes a repository by deleting all archives not matching
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any of the specified retention options. This command is normally used by
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automated backup scripts wanting to keep a certain number of historic backups.
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Also, prune automatically removes checkpoint archives (incomplete archives left
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behind by interrupted backup runs) except if the checkpoint is the latest
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archive (and thus still needed). Checkpoint archives are not considered when
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comparing archive counts against the retention limits (\fB\-\-keep\-X\fP).
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If a prefix is set with \-P, then only archives that start with the prefix are
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considered for deletion and only those archives count towards the totals
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specified by the rules.
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Otherwise, \fIall\fP archives in the repository are candidates for deletion!
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There is no automatic distinction between archives representing different
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contents. These need to be distinguished by specifying matching prefixes.
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If you have multiple sequences of archives with different data sets (e.g.
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from different machines) in one shared repository, use one prune call per
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data set that matches only the respective archives using the \-P option.
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The \fB\-\-keep\-within\fP option takes an argument of the form "<int><char>",
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where char is "H", "d", "w", "m", "y". For example, \fB\-\-keep\-within 2d\fP means
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to keep all archives that were created within the past 48 hours.
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"1m" is taken to mean "31d". The archives kept with this option do not
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count towards the totals specified by any other options.
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A good procedure is to thin out more and more the older your backups get.
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As an example, \fB\-\-keep\-daily 7\fP means to keep the latest backup on each day,
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up to 7 most recent days with backups (days without backups do not count).
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The rules are applied from secondly to yearly, and backups selected by previous
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rules do not count towards those of later rules. The time that each backup
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starts is used for pruning purposes. Dates and times are interpreted in
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the local timezone, and weeks go from Monday to Sunday. Specifying a
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negative number of archives to keep means that there is no limit.
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The \fB\-\-keep\-last N\fP option is doing the same as \fB\-\-keep\-secondly N\fP (and it will
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keep the last N archives under the assumption that you do not create more than one
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backup archive in the same second).
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.SH OPTIONS
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See \fIborg\-common(1)\fP for common options of Borg commands.
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.SS arguments
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.INDENT 0.0
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.TP
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.B REPOSITORY
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repository to prune
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.SS optional arguments
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.TP
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.B \-n\fP,\fB \-\-dry\-run
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do not change repository
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.TP
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.B \-\-force
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force pruning of corrupted archives
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.B \-s\fP,\fB \-\-stats
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print statistics for the deleted archive
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.B \-\-list
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output verbose list of archives it keeps/prunes
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.BI \-\-keep\-within \ WITHIN
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keep all archives within this time interval
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.B \-\-keep\-last\fP,\fB \-\-keep\-secondly
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number of secondly archives to keep
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.B \-\-keep\-minutely
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number of minutely archives to keep
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.B \-H\fP,\fB \-\-keep\-hourly
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number of hourly archives to keep
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.B \-d\fP,\fB \-\-keep\-daily
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number of daily archives to keep
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.B \-w\fP,\fB \-\-keep\-weekly
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number of weekly archives to keep
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.B \-m\fP,\fB \-\-keep\-monthly
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number of monthly archives to keep
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.B \-y\fP,\fB \-\-keep\-yearly
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number of yearly archives to keep
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.B \-\-save\-space
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work slower, but using less space
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.SS filters
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.TP
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.B \-P\fP,\fB \-\-prefix
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only consider archive names starting with this prefix.
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.B \-a\fP,\fB \-\-glob\-archives
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only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply, see "borg help patterns". \fB\-\-prefix\fP and \fB\-\-glob\-archives\fP are mutually exclusive.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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Be careful, prune is a potentially dangerous command, it will remove backup
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archives.
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The default of prune is to apply to \fBall archives in the repository\fP unless
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you restrict its operation to a subset of the archives using \fB\-\-prefix\fP\&.
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When using \fB\-\-prefix\fP, be careful to choose a good prefix \- e.g. do not use a
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prefix "foo" if you do not also want to match "foobar".
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It is strongly recommended to always run \fBprune \-v \-\-list \-\-dry\-run ...\fP
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first so you will see what it would do without it actually doing anything.
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There is also a visualized prune example in \fBdocs/misc/prune\-example.txt\fP\&.
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.INDENT 3.5
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# Keep 7 end of day and 4 additional end of week archives.
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# Do a dry\-run without actually deleting anything.
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$ borg prune \-v \-\-list \-\-dry\-run \-\-keep\-daily=7 \-\-keep\-weekly=4 /path/to/repo
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# Same as above but only apply to archive names starting with the hostname
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# of the machine followed by a "\-" character:
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$ borg prune \-v \-\-list \-\-keep\-daily=7 \-\-keep\-weekly=4 \-\-prefix=\(aq{hostname}\-\(aq /path/to/repo
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# Keep 7 end of day, 4 additional end of week archives,
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# and an end of month archive for every month:
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$ borg prune \-v \-\-list \-\-keep\-daily=7 \-\-keep\-weekly=4 \-\-keep\-monthly=\-1 /path/to/repo
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# Keep all backups in the last 10 days, 4 additional end of week archives,
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# and an end of month archive for every month:
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$ borg prune \-v \-\-list \-\-keep\-within=10d \-\-keep\-weekly=4 \-\-keep\-monthly=\-1 /path/to/repo
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fIborg\-common(1)\fP
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.SH AUTHOR
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The Borg Collective
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