Do old chunks need to be kept around?

[volker-fr]

I am trying to understand the need of keeping old chunks around. The use case for them seem to be limited and mostly around debugging or auditing (e.g. message got deleted?)

For auditing, having changes here handled by Slackdump itself to log changes would be more beneficial over having chunks of every old run stored indefinitely.

I understand the need to keep the latest successful completed information around. I am not sure if this even needs to be in the chunk format, too.

I am curious to learn more about the idea behind keeping all chunks around or what I am overseeing.

[rusq]

Hey @volker-fr , trying to understand what you mean by "old chunks" - is it from the consequent runs of slackdump archive -legacy?