Comments on: SSH: Rotate backup shell script to remove directories (old backup files)

By: Srinivasan

Srinivasan — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:20:06 +0000

I need to remove 1 month older files from a sftp server username@servername, where
i don’t have access for ssh in the sftp server.

Please advise

By: Al

Al — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:21:27 +0000

Watch out of that pipe comes back empty – rm -f will then act on whatever the contents of the current directory are!

By: Reetika

Reetika — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:57:41 +0000

Hi
Pls suggest any one liner or script for my probelm.
I need to tremove the files which are 14 days old but need to skip those folder which are having any single file with latest date.
Need to skip whole folder which contain any single latest file with all the old files also which that particular folder contain.

my script is like this
find . -mtime +14 -exec rm -f {} \;
find . -type d -mtime +14 -exec rmdir {} \;
perl -MFile::Find -e”finddepth(sub{rmdir},’.')”
#find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

Thanks
Reetika Gupta

By: Yannick

Yannick — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:14:04 +0000

Ohhhh..yes..’find’ will probably don’t work in most of ssh jails..

BTW… Thank you very much Vivek for all your very useful tips.. :)

By: vivek

vivek — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:50:31 +0000

Yannick,

Thanks for quick one liner :)

Just a quick note many backup services only allows limited set of commands in chrooted ssh jail. Many time find and other advanced commands are not available so you need to craft something like this

By: Yannick

Yannick — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:54:56 +0000

I usualy use someting like this:

find /var/backup/ -name ‘backup*’ -mtime +7 | xargs rm -f