🚀 retentions 1.3: Smarter Retention, Fewer Surprises With retentions 1.3, the tool grows up another notch. The core idea hasn’t changed:explicit, deterministic retention rules for plain files — no magic, no guessing. But version 1.3 adds a few very practical features that solve real-world annoyances many backup setups quietly suffer from. 🧰 What’s New in … Read more
There was a folder full of backups. There are always folders full of backups. Some are named carefully.Some are named in panic.All of them grow silently. And then there was you — a system architect who does not like silent chaos. You didn’t want a “backup solution.”You wanted policy. Not heuristics. Not magic.Determinism. And that … Read more
🎉 retentions 1.0 is out After a long stretch of building, testing, and thinking a bit too hard about file deletion, I’m releasing retentions 1.0 — the first production-ready version. retentions is a small, cross-platform CLI tool that applies backup-style retention rules to plain files.It does not create backups.It does not “clean up a bit”. … Read more
🗂️ Why I Didn’t Use find – and started retentions Today, I wanted to delete some old backups. Nothing fancy. Just the regular backups I keep from my OpenWRT Wi-Fi access point.And like everyone else, my first instinct was to reach for the shell. 🔧 The Obvious Solutions The usual commands are well known: or: … Read more
