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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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