Re: [Bobs-devel] Periodic Cleanup of Backup Area

[James W. B. <jbe...@mi...>]

Rene:
Thanks for the suggestion, explanation and the options!  I'm considering the
programming option because I think its really useful.  I'll let you know
what I come up with (if anything) before I do it.

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene Rask" <re...@gr...>
To: <bob...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Bobs-devel] Periodic Cleanup of Backup Area


>
> This is an example usage of find:
>
> It will find all files modified more than 30 days ago which are larger
> than 5000KB and list them using ls long format (ls -l)
>
> find /home/rene/ -mtime +30 -size +5000k -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
>
> If you want to delete files you can replace "ls -l" with "rm -f" but be
> careful. You don't get any warnings.
>
> I usually test with "ls -l" before deleting. It gives an idea od what
> I'm deleting.
> You can also spice this up by only searching for files which end in
> ".avi" ".mpg" ".mov" and so on.
> Throw a bunch of these in a script file and use cron to execute it every
> night if you don't want to do it manually.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rene
>
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 21:54, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> > Hi:
> > I have an administrative question concerning BOBS.  Does someone have
some
> > sort of script that periodically runs on the BOBS backup area and
deletes
> > all files over X days old?  It appears that something like this would be
> > nice since it keeps your hard disk from just filling up.  Any chance of
> > something like this making it into the project? (self serving Feature
> > Request from a non-coder ;))
> >
> > If I'm missing something let me know.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
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