PLAKAR-RM(1)

📦 version 1.1.7, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 PLAKAR-RM 💅

okay bestie so this is the plakar-rm page from the Plakar manual — it's plakar-rm, a General Commands Manual situation, and honestly it's giving "spring cleaning but make it terminal." 🧹✨

✨ NAME ✨

plakar-rm — remove snapshots from a Plakar repository. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🗑️💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

plakar rm [-apply] [snapshotID ...]

read it. internalize it. slay. 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the plakar rm command deletes snapshots from a Plakar repository. periodt. 💅

and the way it lets you pick which ones to delete? iconic, genuinely. you can filter for deletion by age, by tag, or by straight-up specifying the snapshot IDs you want gone. choose your own adventure fr fr. 🦋

🚨 lowkey important: if no snapshotID are provided, then either -older or -tag must be specified to filter the snapshots to delete. no filter, no deletion, bestie — that's the rule.

and plot twist 👀 — in addition to the flags described below, plakar ls supports the location flags documented in plakar-query(7) to precisely select snapshots. (yes, that's what it says. copy-pasted the fact, not the phrasing. iykyk. 🌈)

ok so the arguments are:

  • -apply — Delete the matching snapshots. but here's the tea ☕: by default, plakar rm only prints the snapshots that would be deleted. it's a dry run, a little window-shopping of destruction. add -apply when you actually mean it. 🔥

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

the plakar-rm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. no cap, that's the whole status report. ⭐

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

🍓 remove a specific snapshot by ID

$ plakar rm abc123

🍓 remove snapshots older than 30 days

$ plakar rm -before 30d

🍓 remove snapshots with a specific tag

$ plakar rm -tag daily-backup

🍓 remove snapshots older than 1 year with a specific tag

$ plakar rm -before 1y -tag daily-backup

look at those little one-liners go. main character energy, every single one. 👑✨

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

go read those too, bestie, knowledge is free and it's cute. 📚💜

mwah 💋 — this page came from the Debian crew, dated May 5, 2026, and it's the PLAKAR-RM(1) page, General Commands Manual, top to bottom. bye bestie, go delete responsibly 🫶🌈

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