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#1 2020-07-09 14:16:37
- sphen
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Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo
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 {}Offline
#2 2020-07-10 16:17:34
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Re: Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo
(c)XSIBackup-DC already includes a --prune feature. Anybody using this or any other shared code snippet does it at his own risk.
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#3 2020-07-10 16:38:13
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Re: Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo
this is using the --prune feature. but yes understood on your warning
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#4 2020-07-26 16:48:09
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Re: Simple one-liner to purge old backups from repo
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
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