Rysnc Schedule

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 13:30:01 GMT 2007


On 7/19/07, Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:
> /usr/bin/find /var/backup/* -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> Anything older than 30 days gets deleted from /var/backup/

That's no good: it deletes individual files that happen to be older
than 30 days from even yesterday's backup.  This is better:

find /var/backup -maxdepth 1 -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Sparty2809, are you sure you don't want to use rsnapshot?  It does all
of this for you.

Matt


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