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Enhancement: Allow keeping a time range of snaphots
We've added the `--keep-within` option to the `forget` command. It instructs
restic to keep all snapshots within the given duration since the newest
snapshot. For example, running `restic forget --keep-within 5m7d` will keep all
snapshots which have been made in the five months and seven days since the
latest snapshot.
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/1735

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snapshots, only keep the last one for that year.
- ``--keep-tag`` keep all snapshots which have all tags specified by
this option (can be specified multiple times).
- ``--keep-within duration`` keep all snapshots which have been made within
the duration of the latest snapshot. ``duration`` needs to be a number of
years, months, and days, e.g. ``2y5m7d`` will keep all snapshots made in the
two years, five months, and seven days before the latest snapshot.
Additionally, you can restrict removing snapshots to those which have a
particular hostname with the ``--hostname`` parameter, or tags with the