Questions about the archive directory

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Hi!

I am not sure about the purpose of the archive directory created by certbot. Does it simply contains previous versions of certificates? If yes, is there a possibility to have more than one?

Thanks!

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It also contains the current ones.

How do you mean to have more than one archive directory? Isn't one more than enough?

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Thank you for the answer! I meant more certificates in the archive, e.g. the current one and the two previous ones.

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Certbot was changed starting version 2.3 to only keep 6 certs in /archive (latest and 5 more).

Not sure why you would be seeing only two. If you need older certs than 6 you could just make backups. The Certbot --deploy-hook could be used to copy each new cert to your own history location. See Changelog here: certbot/certbot/CHANGELOG.md at master · certbot/certbot · GitHub

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Thanks @MikeMcQ! It's all I wanted to know. I probably see so few of them because I started to use certbot on this server only recently.

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