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Oct 27th, 2009

Hi,

I am a trainee System Administrator in my company and still a newbie. How do I set the cron job to only show the current week's backup (in the database backup directory) and remove the previous week's backups.

One week would mean Monday to Saturday.

Pls help.

Tqs.

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Originally Posted by Aigini

Hi,

I am a trainee System Administrator in my company and still a newbie. How do I set the cron job to only show the current week's backup (in the database backup directory) and remove the previous week's backups.

One week would mean Monday to Saturday.

Pls help.

Tqs.

Hi

First create a script like (removeoldbackup.sh) in that script add these lines.

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#!/bin/sh
cd /database_backup_directory/
find . -mtime +7 -exec rm -rf {} \;

exit and save file. Then make that file executable. I hope you know about how to make executable.

Then you can set crontab as per your requirement.

That is...

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Where do I put that script? Should it also be in the same directory as the backup script?

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Originally Posted by Aigini

Where do I put that script? Should it also be in the same directory as the backup script?

Its your choice place it anywhere like. /home/scripts/databasebackupscripts.sh

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Oh no! You're unqualified for your job, which is basically googling technician. Quick, post "How I sysadmin a com-pu-tar!?!?" to a forum until someone gives you the answer!

what? WHAT?