We do something similar — these 2 lines move the latest backup to our Backup volume, then prune that directory to only hold the last 6 months (182 days) of backups:
mv ./huntsville*.sql.gz /Backup find /Backup/ -name "huntsville*.sql.gz" -type f -mtime +182 -delete Aaron -- Aaron Sakovich Internet and Technology Services Manager Huntsville-Madison County Public Library 915 Monroe Street | Huntsville, Alabama 35801 | https://hmcpl.org/ > On Dec 5, 2020, at 06:35, Tomas Cohen Arazi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Something like: > > find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; > > > On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 09:32 muiru james <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Thank you for finding time to reply to my question. >> I have created a cron that runs at 1800hrs and executes a shell script i >> have named badh.sh containg the syntax for doing a manual sql dump >> (mysqldump -uroot -p**** /) which saves in the folder dropbox in the home >> directory. This dropbox folder synchronises and uploads the new archives to >> the cloud. I want to automatically delete the old backup files older than >> five days thru a script which I'll add to the bash.sh script file. >> >> Regards >> >> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 14:18 Mark Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Excerpts from muiru james's message of 2020-12-05 13:10:56 +0300: >>>> I have my Koha instance backing up automatically to dropbox through a >>> bash >>>> script. I need to automatically delete archives older than 5 days. How >>> do I >>>> do it? >>> >>> If you're using rsync to send the backups from your Koha server to >>> dropbox, you can use the --delete option. That will delete files on >>> dropbox that are not present on the Koha server. I don't use use >> dropbox, >>> but I do something like this to copy backups to my home machine: >>> >>> rsync -av --delete [email protected]:/var/spool/koha/INSTANCENAME/ >>> koha-backups >>> >>> -- >>> Let's organize this thing and take all >>> the fun out of it. --Ashleigh Brilliant >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >> > _______________________________________________ > > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
