[SOLVED] deleting old backups

[jayel]

Hello,

How can I delete old backups by hand?
Can I just do zmbackup -del 7d in command line?
Since 6.07 my disk space is huge ???

greets
John

[iway]

Should be OK.

[bartounet16]

Yes you can use

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del 7d

or directly whith the backup name

/opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del full-20100821.010007.806

[jayel]

Thank you !

[Hivos]

Somewhere in ZCS 6.0.x the behaviour of the backups changed from default hardlinked blobs to default zipped & non-hardlinked blobs. Search the forums, there's many posts covering this. In short: you'll need to add the --noZip option to the backup lines in your crontab, and don't forget to redo this after every upgrade.

[jurness]

Is there a way to configure backups to not keep 4 weeks of backups around? I have looked at the admin manual and i don't see this but can't imagine it is not configurable.

I'd like to only keep one week's worth on disk since it goes to tape anyways...

[jayel]

zimbra@mail:/root$ crontab -e

Search for BACKUP BEGIN :

# BACKUP BEGIN
0 1 * * 6 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -f --noZip -a all
0 1 * * 0-5 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -i --noZip
0 0 * * * /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del 7d
# BACKUP END

Last line 7d means that everything prior to -7 days wil be deleted.

Greets

John