Delete Old Backups in Zimbra 5.0.11

[the_griz]

How does one delete old full backups? Our policy is to not keep full backups older than two weeks when it comes to email. Therefore, full backups made 2 weeks ago should rotate to /dev/null.

Can I make this automatic?

Thanks!

[nordviks]

I'm searching for an answer to this in the forum. The best I've found so far is a command:
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find /opt/zimbra/backup/ -type f -mtime +6 -exec rm -rf {} \;
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The problem with this command is that it modifies the folder date to current date/time and folders/files are still there with a current date stamp.

I was planing to:
nano /root/remove-old-backups.sh
paste:
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#!/bin/bash

find /opt/zimbra/backup/ -type f -mtime +14 -print -exec rm -rf {} \;
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chmod 655 /root/remove-old-backups.sh
nano /etc/crontab
Add this:
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@daily /root/remove-old-backups.sh
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Maybe some one can tell me what is wrong, so it can help you to!

[uxbod]

The -f flag denotes search for regular files. Therefore, when it finds a file with a modifcation date of +14 days then it will remove that file only as no directories are underneath it. You would be better using -d for directories instead. Now you have run it through, as you have seen, the timestamps have been changed so you will have to manually remove them now. The next time it runs, after making that change, all should be okay. Obviously make sure you have a backup to some other sort of media aswell