From 02d22dec4d5571f01a8d8fce23f1f2107f5adf7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dietmar Maurer Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 11:27:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs/administration-guide.rst: explain how prune handles uncomplete backups --- docs/administration-guide.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/administration-guide.rst b/docs/administration-guide.rst index 8a105281..d5a60a55 100644 --- a/docs/administration-guide.rst +++ b/docs/administration-guide.rst @@ -447,6 +447,10 @@ option covers a specific period of time. We say that backups within this period are covered by this option. The next option does not take care of already covered backups and only considers older backups. +The prune command also looks for unfinished and incomplete backups and +removes them unless they are newer than the last successful backup. In +this case, the last failed backup is retained. + .. code-block:: console