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General Discussion / Re: Rotating automatic backups on NextCloud

« on: July 13, 2021, 03:51:29 am »

Umm...how? I can set a size allocation for the backup account, but I'm not aware of a NextCloud feature which automatically deletes old files. Are you talking about a core feature, or a plugin?

I do see a "retention" plugin, but that only acts on tagged files. Then I would need to try to cobble together something with zip ties and duct tape to auto-tag new files with an auto-deletion tag, and hope I get it right, and only affect each individual account. Then if this firewall goes offline for an extended time, the time-based deletion polices purge all of its backups, even though it hasn't been able to make new ones.

I would much prefer to have OPNsense "know...about [my] retention period or implementation" than risk having the whole thing fall apart. If I couldn't trust the platform to protect DR policies, how could I trust it to protect a network?

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General Discussion / Rotating automatic backups on NextCloud

« on: July 10, 2021, 12:18:22 am »

Hi,

I recently set up an OPNsesnse box to automatically save updates to a NextCloud instance. However, I'm not seeing an option to rotate those backups. Is there some method built in, to delete older backup files, or do they just slowly pile up until I run out of disk space and start getting errors?

I suppose I could try to write up a bash script to purge the old ones and run it via cron, but I'm not really sure how I would actually do that safely.

Thank you!