Bug? - Manual Snapshot Only Setting Not Overriding Global Policy

[apb2019]

My global policy for a repository has "Manual Snapshots Only" set to "yes". However for a particular folder I want to run regular 10min snapshots so during the snapshot setup using the UI I set the "Snapshot Frequency" to "every 10 Minutes" and set "Manual Snapshots Only" to "no" instead of "inherit from parent" then save the policy, but when I reopen the policy, the "Manual snapshots Only" setting has been reset back to "inherit from parent" and the blue tick mark next to defined by Global policy is still set.
Is the a bug?

[apb2019]

Should have mentioned that when I set the local policy "Snapshot Frequency" to "every 10 Minutes" there was no error message ("invalid scheduling policy: manual cannot be combined with other scheduling policies") that I would have expected due to the scheduling being a conflict with the Manual Snapshots Only=yes in the global policy.
When the local policy is reopened the "Snapshot Frequency" setting is still showing "every 10 Minutes" though no "upcoming snapshots" are listed.

[PhracturedBlue]

How did you set 'manual policy only' for the global policy?
When I tried to reproduce your case, I get:

kopia policy set --global --manual
Setting policy for (global)
 - setting manual snapshot field to true

ERROR can't save policy for (global): failed to validate policy: invalid scheduling policy: invalid scheduling policy: manual cannot be combined with other scheduling policies

Also, what version of Kopia are you running?

[apb2019]

Policy was set via UI. I get a similar message if the snapshot frequency for the global policy is set to something other than the default (none) and then try to set manual snapshots to yes. Originally saw this in v13 but just recreated the problem in V14.1 as follows
Using UI (14.1)
Create new local repository without changing any of the defaults.
edit/save global policy to change "Manual snapshots only" to yes - leaving all other options unchanged ie snapshot frequency = (none) etc
Create new snapshot - changing Snapshot frequency from (none) to "every 10 mins" and Manual snapshots only from "inherit from parent" to "no"
take snapshot
If I the open policy for snapshot just taken. I see Snapshot frequency still says "every 10 Min" but Manual snapshot only has reverted back to "no" and no upcoming snapshots are listed
Hope this helps

[PhracturedBlue]

I was able to reproduce this on v0.14.1. But apparently I introduced an issue in the changes to --run-missed that makes it impossible to set 'run manually' to true on --global.

So there are 2 issues here:

• The current nightlies won't let you set --manual --global
• After that is addresses, if --manual is set on --global it can't be disabled.

I think the 2nd issue is due to --manual being a bool instead of a tri-state. this is basically the same type of problem I was trying to fix in the --run-missed changes.

I will work on both of these issues. Thanks.

[PhracturedBlue]

I have submitted pull-requests for both issues which will make it possible to override --manual from true->false

[lupusA]

Hi @PhracturedBlue,

can you link your PRs with this issue, if the PRs solve it? This way, we keep track of resolved and unresolved issues.

Cheers,

[PhracturedBlue]

@lupusA I'm not sure what you are looking for. When I look at this bug for instance I see:

Both PRs mention this issue.