Allow prune to be on a different schedule

[seertenedos]

I would love it if prune could be on a different schedule. I have some backups that i run at a higher frequency like every 15 minutes at times but really only want prune to happen once a day. It would be ideal if i could set a different schedule for the prune or specify it to happen every X backups either option would work.

[djmaze]

That's a good idea. My current plan is to have backup and prune as separate commands. That is so in swarm mode they can be separate services, orchestrated by something like swarm-cronjob.

For standalone / docker-compose usage, we would just have a single CRON variable which just runs the command given to the current container (either backup or prune).

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[azurefreecovid]

This would be useful as I'd like to use the restic check on a schedule as well

[zoispag]

I am interested too on this. Can I help somehow @djmaze ?

[djmaze]

I can probably work on this in the next 7 days. As the swarm-cronjob approach is currently not feasible (at least for global jobs and we need a non-swarm solution as well, it probably makes sense to now separate into backup and prune containers with different schedules. I can have a stab at that.