docs/administration-guide.rst: doc prune --dry-run

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@ -451,12 +451,25 @@ The prune command also looks for unfinished and incomplete backups and
removes them unless they are newer than the last successful backup. In
this case, the last failed backup is retained.
.. code-block:: console
# proxmox-backup-client prune <group> --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly 4 --keep-monthly 3
You can use the ``--dry-run`` option to test your settings. This just
shows the list of existing snapshots and what action prune would take
on that.
.. code-block:: console
# proxmox-backup-client prune host/elsa --dry-run --keep-daily 1 --keep-weekly 3
host/elsa/2019-12-04T13:20:37Z keep
host/elsa/2019-12-03T09:35:01Z remove
host/elsa/2019-11-22T11:54:47Z keep
host/elsa/2019-11-21T12:36:25Z remove
host/elsa/2019-11-10T10:42:20Z keep
.. note:: Neither the ``prune`` command nor the ``forget`` command free space
in the chunk-store. The chunk-store still contains the data blocks
unless you are performing :ref:`garbage-collection`.