No auto scheduled snapshots in Incus 6.0.1?

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Since migrating one of my lxd 5.x hosts to an Incus host, and spinning up a new Incus host VM I notice my snapshots are no longer rotating on the schedule.

I have checked the instance options for the snapshots.expiry/pattern/schedule and all looks normal. I did change the pattern a bit from the lxd options just to see if that was the issue.

Here is what is set on a test instance just to test snapshot creation/expiry:

  snapshots.expiry: 4H
  snapshots.pattern: snapshot-{{ creation_date|date:2006-01-02 }}-%d
  snapshots.schedule: 0 */2 * * *

Options on the profiles I use:

  snapshots.expiry: 4H
  snapshots.pattern: snapshot-{{creation_date.Format(20060102)}}-%d
  snapshots.schedule: 0 */2 * * *

Some of the commands used (if this matters?):

incus config set <instance_name> snapshots.pattern 'snapshot-{{ creation_date|date:'2006-01-02' }}-%d'
incus config set <instance_name> snapshots.expiry "4H"
incus config set <instance_name> snapshots.schedule "0 */2 * * *"

For reference here are the options on the lxd host that snapshots work fine still:

  snapshots.expiry: 4H
  snapshots.pattern: snapshot-{{creation_date.Format("20060102")}}-%d
  snapshots.schedule: 0 */2 * * *

On Incus I can manually snapshot instances fine, and remove them. So I am stumped why they don’t just roll over ever 2 hours as they did before. I am probably missing a config setting or option. Or the syntax may have changed, since most these settings were just migrated over from the older lxd hosts/profiles. If needed I can share more information.

If anyone has experienced this, let me know the fix. In the meantime I will keep playing with settings on a test instance.

Running Incus 6.0.1 on Debian 12 VM.

Thanks!

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After a bit more testing, I ended up refreshing the snapshot options, using the example syntax on the docs page. So far working good.

Here is the working setup that seems to work better in Incus:

incus profile set <profile> snapshots.expiry "2H"
incus profile set <profile> snapshots.pattern "snapshot-{{ creation_date|date:'2006-01-02_15-04-05' }}"
incus profile set <profile> snapshots.schedule '@hourly'

I think I was using some old deprecated syntax for the “pongo2” strings somewhere.