Backup delete script

[iway]

Hello!
For performance reasons, I do not want to use rsync with the --delete option to sync the /opt/zimbra/backup directory with our backup server.

I am looking for a good, proven script that deletes all backups taht are, say, older than 21 days, and runs directly on the backup server.

Do you have any good ones?

Thanks

Chris

[bdial]

could you do it simply with a find command? like

find /opt/zimbra/backup/sessions -depth 1 -ctime +21 -exec rm -rf {} \;

this would basically find any directories in /opt/zimbra/backup/sessions that are over 21 days from creation and rm -rf them.

anyone see why this wouldn't work?

[iway]

The thing is, I need it to be more clever than that, since this solution would delete, for example, the full backup of october 20th, and leave the incrementals of 21st, 22nd, etc. These are of no use without the underlying full backup, are they?

Thanks

Chris

[bdial]

yeah you're right the incrementals would be useless without the preceeding full.

[ArcaneMagus]

What backup script are you using? Without knowing the structure of your backups this would be rather hard to answer...

[iway]

Zimbra NE just uses the Network Edition Backup schedule, the backup directory is then rsynched to a remote server once a night.

[jsauve]

Here's a script I use for backing up stuff. Adjust the the number 21 to reflect however many files you'd like to keep. Of course, this is no good for incremental backups, only fulls.

#if the number of files in the backup folder is greater than or equal to 21
if [ $(ls %YOUR DESTINATION DIRECTORY% | wc -l) -ge 21 ]
then
        #navigate to backup directory
        cd %YOUR DESTINATION DIRECTORY%
        #remove the oldest file
        ls -1 -lt | awk ' /^-/ { print $9}' | tail -1 | xargs rm
        #create a new gzipped tar archive in the backup folder, using the current date in YYYY-MM-DD_24hr format as the filename.
        tar -czf %YOUR DESTINATION DIRECTORY%/$(date +%F)_$(date +%H%M).tar.gz %YOUR SOURCE DIRECTORY%
else
        #create a new gzipped tar archive in the backup folder, using the current date in YYYY-MM-DD_24hr format as the filename.
        tar -czf %YOUR DESTINATION DIRECTORY%/$(date +%F)_$(date +%H%M).tar.gz %YOUR SOURCE DIRECTORY%
fi

- Joe

[fscara]

Originally Posted by iway

The thing is, I need it to be more clever than that, since this solution would delete, for example, the full backup of october 20th, and leave the incrementals of 21st, 22nd, etc. These are of no use without the underlying full backup, are they?

Thanks

Chris

This script deletes all backups (full and incremental) except the last full
and subsequent incrementals. It is not a perfect script (some incrementals
remains) but it's all you can do with just two commands.

#!/bin/sh
BCKDIR="/opt/zimbra/backup/sessions"
LIMIT=`ls -1drt $BCKDIR/full* | tail -2 | head -1`
find $BCKDIR -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -newer $LIMIT -delete


PS: i suggest you also to reprogram zimbra backup crontab
using zmschedulebackup

[langseth]

Why not grab a copy of the script zimbra uses, modify and run it on the remote server. Just make sure the backups are completing.

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup: perl script text executable

Edit: nevermind, I did not realize the perl script is just a wrapper.