Help to purge all snapshots and start fresh

[CodeWithCJ]

I setup the retention settings to just 2 days and ran "Prune". but all old backups are still there. How to clean them and start fresh.

[garethgeorge]

https://garethgeorge.github.io/backrest/docs/operations gives some details about the various operation types,

in short prune just releases data from storage but doesn't actually remove old snapshots etc. You likely want the forget command. It's run automatically when you run a new backup to enforce your retention policies. You can also run it manually using the run command feature.

https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/060_forget.html have more details on its use.