Aging backup files

find /backups/ -mtime +30 -delete               ; Age backup files; Delete backups older than 30 days

FIXME is there a way to “age” by size/disk-space-quota in directory?

Rapid Backup

Following script backs up every hour and deletes backups older than 6 hours (720 mins). Very useful for RAM Disks, where the data on them is not persistent. This came from Simon.

#!/bin/bash
 
#this script creates backups and also handles cleanups
#it is used to take care of the ramdisk
 
#directory for the backups
BLOC=$ZENHOME/backups/rapids/
 
#create backup filename so we don't conflict
FILENAME=${BLOC}'rapidBackup.'`date +%F-%H-%M`'.tgz'
/opt/zenoss/bin/zenbackup --no-eventsdb --no-perfdata --temp-dir=/apps/zenoss/backups_tmp --file=${FILENAME} 
 
#delete all backups older than 6h
find ${BLOC} -mmin +720 -delete