[pbs-devel] [RFC PATCH proxmox-backup 0/5] add 'protected' setting for snapshots

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 02.09.21 08:45, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>>> * would we want to protect also against manual removal ? or
>>>  'remove-vanished' on sync?
>>
>> Would make sense as long as we allow to "unprotect" it, that's how we do it for guests
>> in PVE too. IMO it's weird/unexpected to mark it protected and allow some API mechanisms
>> to still remove it.
> 
> I would not consider the protected flag for syncs, i.e:
> - do not sync the protected flag itself

That I agree (and I did not meant to suggest otherwise).

> - remove vanished backups even with protected flag set (to be in sync with source)

That I do not agree, if I marked a snapshot explicitly protected, which
is a must for the situation to happen with the first point above in mind
(no syncing of the protection flag itself) then I'm pretty sure that I want
to keep that snapshot no matter what.