# Autorestic | Forget/Prune Policies

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# linkForget/Prune Policies

Autorestic supports declaring snapshot policies for location to avoid keeping old snapshot around if you don't need them.

This is based on Restic's snapshots policies, and can be enabled for each location as shown below:

> Note This is a full example, of course you also can specify only one of them

    .autorestic.yml1locations:
    2  etc:
    3    from: /etc
    4    to: local
    5    options:
    6      forget:
    7        keep-last: 5 # always keep at least 5 snapshots
    8        keep-hourly: 3 # keep 3 last hourly shapshots
    9        keep-daily: 4 # keep 4 last daily shapshots
    10        keep-weekly: 1 # keep 1 last weekly shapshots
    11        keep-monthly: 12 # keep 12 last monthly shapshots
    12        keep-yearly: 7 # keep 7 last yearly shapshots
    13        keep-within: '2w' # keep snapshots from the last 2 weeks

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