I don't understand retention policies

[kapitainsky]

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Retention policies documentation

Hi! I was trying to set up my backups with kopia. Surprisingly, the biggest problem was understanding how retention policies work. Lack of documentation on this topic doesn’t really help. So I searched the forums and Reddit and all that. I think I read every post regarding that, and I think I kinda understand how it all works, but I’m not 100% sure. Either way, I wrote a “documentation” (more like ELI5) in hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, or help someone else set the policies up. I s…