[PVE-User] rotating snapshot backups

[Dominik Csapak]

On 8/7/19 10:37 AM, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a active - cold backup pair of 5.4.6 hosts and I solely run LXC 
> containers.
> 
> On the active host I've set up daily backups and they have been running 
> fine.
> 
> The only problem is they don't rotate, i.e. old ones never get deleted.
> 
> I've tried setting "maxfiles: 25" in /etc/vzdump.conf but after last 
> backup run I can see 56 files under /var/lib/vz/dump (28 .lzo + 28 .log).
> 
> I could work around this problem with a bash script but would prefer 
> Proxmox to handle it.
> 
> Please advise.
> 

the 'maxfiles' parameter is counted per guest, so setting it to 25
means for each guest 25 backpus will be kept

there is not setting to have such a limit for all backups on a storage 
together