[sles-beta] SLES12 RC1Question concerning EMPTY_PRE_POST_CLEANUP="yes"

[Arvin Schnell]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:10:05AM +0000, urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
> Hi Arvin
> 
> Thank you for your post.
> 
> >Also, per default the cleanup algorithms only delete snapshots
> >which are at least 30 minutes old.
> >
> >So on average empty pre-post snapshots are deleted after half a
> >day, but it can take upto one day and 30 minutes.
> >
> >As you already wrote in a reply to my previous mail the snapshots
> >are deleted after some time so everything looks OK.
> I was looking to get an information telling me more about the delay to clean up empty pre-post snapshots
> So even in the manpage there was nothing.

This is explained in the snapper-configs(5) manpage (which is
referenced from snapper(8)). Those are also available on
the snapper homepage:

  http://snapper.io/documentation.html

Regards,
  Arvin

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