Trim my config backups

[ethereal]

i have a script that copies my config file - once a day. i have hundreds can somebody help me with a way of automatically trimming them to say 50 ?

my script is :
cp /data/freenas-v1.db /mnt/Storage/Storage/ConfigBackups/`date +%Y%m%d`_`cut -d' ' -f1 /etc/version|cut -d'-' -f2`.db

my script runs from a cron job. which is the easiest way to trim using my unc path?
the location is \\FreeNAS\Storage\ConfigBackups

thank you

 

[Basil Hendroff]

Code:

find /mnt/Storage/Storage/ConfigBackups/* -atime +31 -delete

This will keep a month's worth of backups. Suggest you take a copy of your backups and test this out first before putting it into production.

 

[ethereal]

Code:

find /mnt/Storage/Storage/ConfigBackups/* -atime +31 -delete

This will keep a month's worth of backups. Suggest you take a copy of your backups and test this out first before putting it into production.

thanks for your reply. where do i run the command

 

[ethereal]

i created a cron job with:
find /mnt/Storage/Storage/ConfigBackups/* -atime +31 -delete

and it worked great

 

[elvisimprsntr]

Here is an example script I run as a weekly cron, which replicates using the GUI with export secret seed option.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

FILENAME="`hostname -s`-`cut -d' ' -f1 /etc/version`-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar"

#echo $FILENAME

tar -cvlf /mnt/data/Software/truenas/$FILENAME --strip-components=2 /data/freenas-v1.db /data/pwenc_secret

echo "Backup $FILENAME created"

find /mnt/data/Software/truenas/NAS-?-TrueNAS-*.tar -mtime +365 -exec rm {} \;

Make sure it has execute permissions

Code:

chmod a+x {filename}

Add to cron tasks

Code:

/bin/sh /mnt/data/Software/truenas/backup.sh