Re: [Automysqlbackup-users] Weekly backups not being rotated?

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Adrian Simmons wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2009, at 01:43, Russell Jones wrote:
>> Am I not understanding something correctly, or is there an error I am
>> encountering?
> You do have 2.5?
> # VER 2.4 - (2006-01-23)
> #    Fixed bug where weekly backups were not being rotated. (Fix by  
> wolf02)
> 
> I have 2.5 and have the same problem, but it's worth checking I guess.
> 
> There are some differences between the routines used for rotating  
> weekly backup depending on whether you use a separate directory for  
> each db or whether all db's are in one. I use the separate directory  
> setting, I think there is a bug with that...
> 
> At line 539:
> 
> eval rm -fv "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/$DB_week.$REMW.*"
> 
> ought to be:
> 
> eval rm -fv "$BACKUPDIR/weekly/${DB}_week.$REMW.*"
> 
> Because in the former the variable name will be $DB_week. which  
> doesn't exist, rather than $DB which is the db name being used. I'll  
> give this change a shot. But I'm a shell scripting noob so use it at  
> your own risk!
> 
> Adrian

The updated version will use "find" and delete all files older than a 
specified number of days.. Should simplify the existing logic and clean 
up everything.. :)