plakar-rm

NAME

plakar-rm — Remove snapshots from a Plakar repository

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The plakar rm command deletes snapshots from a Plakar repository. Snapshots can be filtered for deletion by age, by tag, or by specifying the snapshot IDs to remove. If no snapshotID are provided, either -older or -tag must be specified to filter the snapshots to delete.

The arguments are as follows:

-name name

Filter snapshots that match name.

-category category

Filter snapshots that match category.

-environment environment

Filter snapshots that match environment.

-perimeter perimeter

Filter snapshots that match perimeter.

-job job

Filter snapshots that match job.

-tag tag

Filter snapshots that match tag.

-latest

Filter latest snapshot matching filters.

-before date

Filter snapshots matching filters and older than the specified date. Accepted formats include relative durations (e.g. 2d for two days, 1w for one week) or specific dates in various formats (e.g. 2006-01-02 15:04:05).

-since date

Filter snapshots matching filters and created since the specified date, included. Accepted formats include relative durations (e.g. 2d for two days, 1w for one week) or specific dates in various formats (e.g. 2006-01-02 15:04:05).

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

DIAGNOSTICS

The plakar-rm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

0

Command completed successfully.

>0

An error occurred, such as invalid date format or failure to delete a snapshot.

SEE ALSO

plakar(1), plakar-backup(1)