Request for smart retention of quarterly and annual backups

[Pectojin]

Specifying years with ‘Y’ is already supported.

I made a short overview of the options here:

Retention config setup (stacking arguments with same timeframe?)

Yes, it’s essentially for X [time] keep one backup every X [time] With support for s - second m - minute h - hour D - day W - week M - month Y - year One “different” option isn’t really a time, it’s more of a concept U:1D - for unlimited time keep one backup for every 1 day 1D:U - for 1 day keep unlimited backups It’s also worth noting the time-frames are somewhat fuzzy, but they do not accumulate. So even though you keep one every 8 hours you don’t have to backup exactly at multiples of 8…

As for quarters, I could see it being used, but it seems a bit superfluous… that’s just my opinion.