Old backup files not deleted

[ts678]

S3 buckets, "smart" retention, and old data files

I was poking around the S3 buckets that duplicati sends backups to, and was a little puzzled by the age of some of the files. On the backup job I have it set to use smart retention, so I was quite surprised to find dindex and dblock files going back 4 years. I checked the logs, and do see it reporting that retention rules are being processed, for example: “2022-06-20 23:13:45 -07 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.Operation.DeleteHandler:RetentionPolicy-StartCheck]: Start checking if back…

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@iluber

How can I get rid of those old files?

@ts678

@jangliss

I can safely delete anything outside of the smart retention (1 year)?

This will destroy your backup, as noted. Don’t do it.