PLAKAR-POLICY(1)

💅 PLAKAR-POLICY — bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk, this is the plakar-policy page from the General Commands Manual — it's giving "I manage your retention policies and I do it flawlessly" energy 👑

✨ NAME ✨

plakar-policy — literally the command that manages your Plakar retention policies 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

plakar policy subcommand ...

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so <pink>plakar policy</pink> is the main character here, and its whole job is managing the retention policies for <purple>plakar-prune(1)</purple> 🫶

the configuration is a set of named entries, and each one describes a retention policy. that's it, that's the vibe ✨

here's the subcommand lineup, no cap:

• add name [option=value ...] — creates a brand new source entry identified by name. you can also set extra parameters by tossing in option=value pairs 💅
• rm name — removes the policy identified by name from the configuration. bye bestie 👋
• set name [option=value ...] — sets the option to value for the source identified by name. and yes, you can stack multiple option/value pairs, go off 🔥
• show [-json] [-yaml] [name ...] — displays the current sources configuration. -json and -yaml control the output format, and it's YAML by default 👑
• unset name [option ...] — removes the option for the policy identified by name 🙈

the available options are described in <purple>plakar-query(7)</purple> — each option corresponds to the similarly named flag. iykyk 🌸

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

plakar-policy exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. success = slay, error = 💀

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

create a policy called weekly that keeps one backup per week and discards backups older than three months — obsessed with her honestly:

$ plakar policy add weekly
$ plakar policy set weekly since='3 months'
$ plakar policy set weekly per-week=1

then prune snapshots according to that weekly policy:

$ plakar prune -policy weekly

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

plakar(1), plakar-prune(1)

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