From 9588e111c442ea675feff86926c29ff5035cd729 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Helfman Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 16:13:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Adding documentation note about pruning happening before archiving. --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6840d06e9..588c07ca5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ If you'd like to see the available command-line arguments, view the help: borgmatic --help +Note that borgmatic prunes archives *before* creating an archive, so as to +free up space for archiving. This means that when a borgmatic run finishes, +there may still be prune-able archives. Not to worry, as they will get cleaned +up at the start of the next run. + ### Verbosity By default, the backup will proceed silently except in the case of errors. But