Pause also pauses other needed stops. For example, a Commandline purge:
Running commandline entry
Server is currently paused, resume now
Commandline vacuum gets the same. GUI Compact now seems to just queue.
Another reason why disabling the schedule is safer is I don’t think anything but Canary remembers the pause across Duplicati restarts which might be wanted.
I assume delete means carefully use the purge command. Delete from source configuration means future backups will be less, but historical ones don’t change.
“delete” means carfeully deleting individual files and directory trees from the filesets. I was thinking I could use the “delete” command to do this as opposed to using “purge” and then having to do a “compact”, but perhaps I am misremembering. “purge” is probably better anyway in this case since I intend to do a “compact” at the end anyway.