# How to automatically remove backup cron pods? **URL:** \ **Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL\ **Created:** [February 21, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217 "2023-02-21T09:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![b602fa9c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@b602fa9c](https://forums.percona.com/u/b602fa9c)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/1 "2023-02-21T09:57:52Z")
Currently when a backup job completes the pod is left in “Completed” status. In an environment where backups have to be kept for a long time the number of these pods build up and become a pain when using kubectl for other tasks. Is there any way to have these pods be automatically removed after some time but keep the pxc-backup resource? Potentially by setting “.spec.ttlSecondsAfterFinished” on the job ([Automatic Cleanup for Finished Jobs | Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/ttlafterfinished/)) I couldn’t see any way to set that in the operator. > ---
**Author:** ![Slava\_Sarzhan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/slava_sarzhan/32/3196_2.png) [@Slava\_Sarzhan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Slava_Sarzhan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/2 "2023-02-21T16:56:19Z")
@b602fa9c Do you use keep option [percona-xtradb-cluster-operator/cr.yaml at main · percona/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator · GitHub](https://github.com/percona/percona-xtradb-cluster-operator/blob/main/deploy/cr.yaml#L603) in CR? ---
**Author:** ![b602fa9c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@b602fa9c](https://forums.percona.com/u/b602fa9c)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/3 "2023-02-28T16:48:25Z")
Yes we set keep to 0 ---
**Author:** ![Slava\_Sarzhan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/slava_sarzhan/32/3196_2.png) [@Slava\_Sarzhan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Slava_Sarzhan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/4 "2023-02-28T17:01:12Z")
In this case you disabled it. If you want to keep e.g. last 5 backups you need to set it in 5 and all jobs will be cleaned up as well . ---
**Author:** ![b602fa9c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@b602fa9c](https://forums.percona.com/u/b602fa9c)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2023, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/5 "2023-03-13T11:40:46Z")
I want to keep the backups but not the backup jobs ---
**Author:** ![jackieh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/90ced4/32.png) [@jackieh](https://forums.percona.com/u/jackieh)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/6 "2023-07-05T21:58:35Z")
Hi b602fa9c, I am running into the same problem, where failed or succeeded jobs linger. I also have the ‘keep’ option set, but I believe you are right that this is the retention of backups on the storage destination. Did you ever get an answer on how to solve this problem? ---
**Author:** ![b602fa9c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@b602fa9c](https://forums.percona.com/u/b602fa9c)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/7 "2023-07-20T13:48:53Z")
> [@jackieh](#): > > but I believe you are right that this is the retention of backups on the No, I’m still looking for a solution to this. ---
**Author:** ![elie\_mouawad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/elie_mouawad/32/12569_2.png) [@elie\_mouawad](https://forums.percona.com/u/elie_mouawad)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/8 "2023-09-02T21:48:49Z")
+1 on this - ttlSecondsAfterFinished is a good idea ---
**Author:** ![Sergey\_Pronin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sergey_pronin/32/14887_2.png) [@Sergey\_Pronin](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sergey_Pronin)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/9 "2023-09-04T07:23:01Z")
@elie_mouawad what would be the best default for this? ---
**Author:** ![b602fa9c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@b602fa9c](https://forums.percona.com/u/b602fa9c)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/10 "2023-10-31T09:20:59Z")
Hi @Sergey_Pronin, is this feature likely to be implemented? I would suggest 86400 as a default. ---
**Author:** ![Slava\_Sarzhan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/slava_sarzhan/32/3196_2.png) [@Slava\_Sarzhan](https://forums.percona.com/u/Slava_Sarzhan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/11 "2023-12-07T20:06:11Z")
> [@elie\_mouawad](#): > > ttlSecondsAfterFinished @b602fa9c We have a task about this issue [[K8SPXC-1214] Add option to automatically cleanup jobs and associated pods - Percona JIRA](https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPXC-1214) . I included it to the next PXCO release. ---
**Author:** ![bljurg\_geiwn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/bljurg_geiwn/32/18297_2.png) [@bljurg\_geiwn](https://forums.percona.com/u/bljurg_geiwn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-automatically-remove-backup-cron-pods/20217/12 "2024-10-13T06:23:50Z")
> [@elie\_mouawad](#): > > ttlSecondsAfterFinished Is this available for use in any version?