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Restic retention outcome is hard to predict

Users cannot tell what restic forget keeps when every keep rule is set to one, and cannot test it without waiting years.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

5 public reports · first reported 24 June 2026 · last reported 24 June 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Several people asked what restic forget keeps when all keep rules are set to one, expecting either one snapshot or one per rule.

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