Backup retention policy

[mauritsvdvijgh]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?

FEATURE REQUEST

Backup retention policy

Have a way to specify how many backups you want to keep for each time period.
For example: Keep last 7, 1 for each week for 10 weeks, one for each month for 12 months.

Instead of implementing a complete backup system with different backends yourself, I suggest using restic for backup purposes. It is made in go, binary is ~5mb, supports a lot of different backends, supports encryption and it supports retention policies.

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html

[prydie]

I like the idea of using restic to handle this complexity for us. Would certainly be open to contributions in this area.

[mauritsvdvijgh]

Interesting, I can also change the issue to "Implement restic for backups"
Or something like that.