At midnight smart remove deletes all snapshot taken the previous day

[Xwang1976]

I've set backintime to save a snapshot every 2 hours and then I've activated the smart backup to keep the snapshots taken the previous day, one snapshot a day for the last 14 days, one snapshot a week for the last 5 weeks and one snapshot a month for the last 2 months.
I expected that after a day it would have deleted only snapshots older than one day (if not needed for the daily, weekly and monthly rules) so that to have twelve snapshots taken in the last 24 hours.
Instead at midnight it has deleted all the snapshots taken the day before excep the first one.
Is it normal or is it a bug?
If it is normal how can I keep the last 12 snapshots (taken in the last 24 hours) and the daily, weekly and monthly ones?

[buhtz]

Tag: Feedback, Support

@Xwang1976 There is a new forming maintaining team and we do review all issues. Is this problem still relevant for you or did you find a solution?

I need to summarize that do improve my understanding

• scheduled each 2 hours
• keep previous days "1"
• keep per day for the last "14" days
• keep one per week for the last "5" weeks
• keep one per month for the last "2" months

I am not sure if I understand everything. It seems normal to me what you subscribed.

Maybe you should set "keep previous days" to the value "2". Have you tried that?

[emtiu]

Yes, it sounds to me like the setting you want is: "Keep all snapshots for the last: 2 day(s)".

If I'm not mistaken, the confusion probably comes from the fact that backintime takes "the last 1 day(s)" to mean "the current calendar day" (which changes at midnight), and not "the past 24 hours".

[buhtz]

Closing because of no new relevant information. Please feel free to re-open the issue.

[emtiu]

I'd like to keep this open and reproduce it some time, so we could maybe find a better wording for the smart remove settings.

[buhtz]

I used the "Documentation" label because IMHO the strings in the GUI are also kind of a documentation.

[Xwang1976]

Yes, it sounds to me like the setting you want is: "Keep all snapshots for the last: 2 day(s)".

If I'm not mistaken, the confusion probably comes from the fact that backintime takes "the last 1 day(s)" to mean "the current calendar day" (which changes at midnight), and not "the past 24 hours".

Sorry for the enormus delay, but indeed yes I would like to keep for last 2 days meaning that due to the fact that I do a bakup every 4 hours, I would like to keep the latest 12 snapshots the one for the last 48 hours. I hope it clarifies.