Pruning of “automatic backups before updating”?

[solowizParticipant]

Is there/will there ever be a function, setting, or feature that enables the user to prune old backups made automatically before a plugin/theme/WP update?

I have one site, for example, with over 1K retained (individual) backup files in offsite storage.

[solowizParticipant]

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[Bryle CroduaModerator]

Hi,

By default, automatic backups before update is excluded from the backup retention rule.
Let me check if there is a way to disable that.

Thanks,
Bryle

[solowizParticipant]

I’m thinking this might be better as a separate function from the regular “pruning”. For example there might be several auto-backups a day for updated plugins; these will add up fast, and I’d think we wouldn’t want them to crowd out scheduled backups. A couple of ideas:

1. A feature that manually deletes all auto-backups older than X (user-defined) days/weeks
2. Automatically prune auto backups older than X weeks – as a separate retention rule

Consider it a feature request perhaps? This came up a long time ago also, and others have asked for something similar. I was kinda hoping there was some progress on it already :)

I’m storing them off-site and have lots of space, but not unlimited – and deleting these auto-backups manually would be endlessly tedious…

[Bryle CroduaModerator]

Hi,

Thank you for suggestion. I will send this to our development team for review.

Thanks,
Bryle

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