jcwillox
Backups not being purged as expected
The problem
I have a 4 week cycle of backups (keeps 4 weekly full backups, 7 daily full backups and 8 intraday (3 hourly) partial backups.
I noticed a few weeks ago a load of older ones still in the backup directory (and HA listing). I manually removed them.
Now a few weeks later I have more from prior to the 4 week cycle. These are all generated from an automation. I don't use the built in HA back up process introduced a few months ago.
Something isn't right with the purge date tracking
What version of Auto Backup has the issue?
1.8.1
What version of Home Assistant are you running?
2025.9.0
What type of installation are you running?
Home Assistant OS
If you're running HA OS/Supervised, what version of the Supervisor are you running?
2025.09.0
Example YAML snippet
Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?
Additional information
No response
I'm seeing this too. I've used the blueprint. Should I be specifying keep days (and how does that work for the different backup types such as weekly, monthly and yearly)?
To add I tried using purge in the developer tools but that didn't seem to remove anything.
Thinking a bit more, I "download" my backups to /share/auto_backups. I don't think there's anything that purges from there so I guess I need to create another automation to purge these?