restic: say in each retention setting that lowering it deletes restore points for good, so the operator sees the cost before setting it (novox/hq issue 416)

2026-10-11 03:09:46 +02:00
parent 39d5b25f95
commit ecf6d7803f
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@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 // Each module gets one snapshot a night, tagged with its name, so a module is listed, kept and
 // restored on its own. Everything lands in one repository on the machine — deduplicated, so every
 // night is a complete restore point and only what changed costs space — and is thinned to 14 daily,
-// 8 weekly and 6 monthly unless the machine's settings say otherwise (retention.go). Against mistakes, not disasters: nothing leaves the machine.
+// 8 weekly and 6 monthly unless the machine's settings say otherwise (retention.go). Against
+// mistakes, not disasters: nothing leaves the machine.
 //
 // Root's: the dumps read every store and the repository holds every module's data, and the runtime
 // launching this binary runs as the operator's account, so restic and the run lines go through sudo