PLAKAR-RM(1) General Commands Manual PLAKAR-RM(1)

plakar-rmRemove snapshots from a Plakar repository

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

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.

In addition to the flags described below, plakar ls supports the location flags documented in plakar-query(7) to precisely select snapshots.

The arguments are as follows:

Delete the matching snapshots. By default, plakar rm only prints the snapshots that would be deleted.

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

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

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