[Koha] Autodelete backups older than 5days

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Something like:

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;


On Sat, Dec 5, 2020, 09:32 muiru james <muirunyeri at 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 at 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 at koha.example.com:/var/spool/koha/INSTANCENAME/
> > koha-backups
> >
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