Confusing if "recent" is not used.

[guettli]

crontab:

@hourly pg_dump -Fc > backup/db-$(date -Isecond).dump; timegaps --delete hours24,days7,weeks4,months6 backup/*.dump

This immediately deletes the files created a millisecond before. The directory backup will be empty for ever.

That's confusing.

I found the solution: You need to add recent.

Example:

@hourly pg_dump -Fc > backup/db-$(date -Isecond).dump; timegaps --delete recent1,hours24,days7,weeks4,months6 backup/*.dump

The "first time user experience" could get improved.

Why not switch to

if "recent" is missing, all recent file are kept?