Hi 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? Please assist. Thanks Warm Regards James
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 root@koha.example.com:/var/spool/koha/INSTANCENAME/ koha-backups -- Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it. --Ashleigh Brilliant
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 <marka@pobox.com> 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 root@koha.example.com:/var/spool/koha/INSTANCENAME/ koha-backups
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Something like: find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 09:32 muiru james <muirunyeri@gmail.com> 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 <marka@pobox.com> 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 root@koha.example.com:/var/spool/koha/INSTANCENAME/ koha-backups
-- Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it. --Ashleigh Brilliant _______________________________________________
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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 <tomascohen@gmail.com> wrote:
Something like:
find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 09:32 muiru james <muirunyeri@gmail.com> 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 <marka@pobox.com> 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 root@koha.example.com:/var/spool/koha/INSTANCENAME/ koha-backups
-- Let's organize this thing and take all the fun out of it. --Ashleigh Brilliant _______________________________________________
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The script that generates the backups, koha-run-backups has a --days <days> option switch that takes care of keeping only <days> copies. On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 07:16 muiru james <muirunyeri@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
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?
Please assist.
Thanks
Warm Regards James _______________________________________________
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