Ability to schedule a Borg compact

[P-Jay357]

The problem

I would like to compact my backup every month (for example). Currently, I would have to do this manually (for a local repository which is on an external drive).

Requested Solution

Have a similar option for scheduling compacting repos like we have with Backup schedule and Validation.

[goebbe]

Apparently this has now been implemented and merged. https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/pull/1981

[JourneyOver]

Is there any idea on when it might possibly be coming to an actual release with this however? :o

[goebbe]

This has been merged at the end of June. So I guess this will be part of the next release.

Please test the current release candidate and provide feedback: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/issues/2077

[JourneyOver]

That seems to just be for MacOS, I'm running linux (ubuntu)

[goebbe]

That seems to just be for MacOS, I'm running linux (ubuntu)

Me too! I guess we have to install the rc manually - however, I am not sure what would be the best way to install Vorta release candidate in parallel to the stable version.
I just put a question to the referred issue and asked about howto test on Linux.

[goebbe]

This is included in the latest release, i.e. Vorta 0.10. Thanks to the developers! Now, by default, "compact" will run every 3 weeks. (this is configurable)

[m3nu]

Thanks for the reminder, @goebbe . So time to close this.

Fixed by @shivansh02 in #1981