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Wrong remove schedule?

Asked by Fabio Marzocca

I have set the auto-remove sonfiguration to remove all snapshots older than 1 week.

Today (feb 24) I have run it again and this is what I am reading in the log:

"INFO: Remove backups older than: 20130211-000000"

Why "older than Feb 11" if today is Feb 24 and the setting is to remove snapshots older than 1 week?

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Best Germar (germar) said : 		#1

The calculation that is done by BIT for 'older than X weeks' is:
today - (today's weekday + 7 * X )
where the weekday start counting with Monday = 0.
This will be 24 - (6 + 7 * 1) = 11

So there will be X full weeks plus this week.
If you only want to keep exactly one week you can change to 7 days.

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Germar

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) said : 		#2

Thanks Germar, that solved my question.