rustic.toml: path specific forget policy

[dimejo]

I have previously been using autorestic which allows to configure different forget policies per location. Is this possible with rustic?

[aawsome]

This is currently only possible via multiple config files, i.e. put your different forget options into files like forget1.toml, forget2.toml, etc and then run rustic -P forget1 forget and so on...

[manfredlotz]

I am also interested to have this possibility. The suggestion doesn't seem to work for me or I have not understood the suggestion.

Assume I have a test.toml with

[[backup.sources]]
source = "/home/manfred/repos/local"

[[backup.sources]]
source = "/home/manfred/repos/gitlab"

If I have a test.local.toml with

[[backup.sources]]
source = "/home/manfred/repos/local"

[forget]
keep-hourly = 20
keep-daily = 7
keep-weekly = 4
keep-monthly = 1
keep-yearly = 0

then when running rustic -P test.local -n forget I get shown snapshots from both paths would be removed.

[manfredlotz]

Oops, sorry. I overlooked the filter... options. So things should work with two config files

[aawsome]

A side note: With 0.5.3 you can use other config profies within a config profile file.
So, in your case you could e.g. define a repo.toml with all your standard configuration and then do

[global]
use-profile = ["repo"]

[forget]
# put your forget-profile-specific options here...

to define various forget profiles, e.g. forget1.toml, forget2.toml,...

Note that there is rustic show-config which allows you to see what resulting config rustic uses, if you have complex nested config files..

[manfredlotz]

What I have done now is to have a global config x.toml with

[global]
log-level = "warn"
log-file = "/home/manfred/logfiles/x.log"

# repository options: These options define which backend to use and which password to use.
[repository]
repository = "/data/x"
password = "mypassword"


[backup]
exclude-if-present = [".nobackup", "CACHEDIR.TAG", "pCloudDrive/", ".pcloud/", ".snapshots/"]
one-file-system = true

Then two more specific ones like for example x.home.toml

[global]
use-profile = ["x"]

[[backup.sources]]
source = "/home/manfred"


[forget]
filter-paths = ["/home/manfred"]
keep-hourly = 20
keep-daily = 7
keep-weekly = 4
keep-monthly = 1
keep-yearly = 0

Works fine. I only have to experiment with the keep-... values in a way I like

[aawsome]

Great to hear that this works for you!
You could even specify the filter-paths under [snapshot-filter] - it will be also used by forget (unless you overwrite it in the [forget] section) and you have the additional benefit that other commands also use this filter, e.g. you can use rustic -P x.home snapshots.

[manfredlotz]

Thanks a lot. For backups I currently specify both x.home and x.other. I will take a look at your suggestion