From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 9:23:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mero-08a.merowingia.uni-kl.de (mero-08a.merowingia.uni-kl.de [131.246.135.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7627F14CF7 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sold@mero-08a.merowingia.uni-kl.de) Received: (from sold@localhost) by mero-08a.merowingia.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA02948; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:22:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sold) From: Christoph Sold Message-ID: <14410.40791.863940.609567@mero-08a.merowingia.uni-kl.de> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:22:31 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: cs@cheasy.de Subject: How to delete backups N days old? X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I do regular backups of a subtree into some tarballs on another volume. The tarballs are named including the date (e.g. bup-19991205.tar.bz2). Those files accumulate over a period of several days, then get written out to tape. After that, I want to delete backup tarballs older than, say, one week. Looking for an option in find, I went up blank. (Yes, you may specify files older than another given file, but that=B4s not what is needed here. I want to create a script automating the process, leaving a couple of newer tarballs online.) Any ideas really appreciated -Christoph Sold --- P.S: Pls reply to the Reply-To address above (cs@cheasy.de), since the account I am writing this on has only a fake MX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message