Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo

sphen · 2020-07-09 14:16:37

Thought I would share a simple oneliner I have used to purge old backups from the repo. This just uses unix find and modification date. example shows a purge of 7 day old or more backups.

find /path/to/repo -type d -maxdepth 1 -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 -i /path/to/xsibackup --prune {}

admin · 2020-07-10 16:17:34

[b](c)XSIBackup-DC[/b] already includes a [b]--prune[/b] feature. Anybody using this or any other shared code snippet does it at his own risk.

sphen · 2020-07-10 16:38:13

this is using the --prune feature. but yes understood on your warning

admin · 2020-07-26 16:48:09

We have discovered a bug that affects backups with a block size bigger than default (10M, 20M, 50M). Please switch to using 1MB blocks (default) and wait until we release a fix in v. 1.4.0.0 before using bigger block sizes

[url=https://33hops.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=783]Non default --block-size bug[/url]

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#1 2020-07-09 14:16:37

Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo

#2 2020-07-10 16:17:34

Re: Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo

#3 2020-07-10 16:38:13

Re: Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo

#4 2020-07-26 16:48:09

Re: Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo

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