cron job to erase old FreePBX backups
Submitted by ja133 on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 5:55pm.
Hi, my freepbx backups get bigger and bigger and bigger by the week. Is there a cron job to delete all the backups once a month and just keep the most recent one? Or at least just erase the entire backup folder once a month?
I would appreciate if someone can take the time to set up such a cron job for me
Thanks a lot
0 0 * * 0 root find
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 6:18pm
0 0 * * 0 root find /var/lib/asterisk/backups/daily/ -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \; > /dev/null
Deletes everything older than 30 days. You may need to change the directory as you may have named your backups something else, so verify it on the file system first.
I knew I was forgetting to put something in my training material and this was it...
Ethan, thanks so
Fri, 05/16/2008 - 7:32pm
Ethan, thanks so much
simsjrg, yes, WAY too much spam and it is getting out of hand already. Even my personal email account was getting spam!!
How do I edit the cron file?
Fri, 06/06/2008 - 9:31pm
How do I edit the cron file? I had instructions on that but I cant find it anymore
Thanks
Find is the easy fix ...
Sun, 06/08/2008 - 8:28am
Ethan,
Your use of find is a great easy fix :-) to maintain the directory size. What I am looking for is a cron to trim the size of the backups which are growing exponentially every week. Since the box does not trim / archive the CDR records in the MYsql database.
In PostgreSQL I could do a select into a table for month n, then delete and then vacuum. Reusing the month n table every year would ensure no more than 12 months of activity and a fairly consistent size backup after the first 12 months of installation.
What is the best way to do that here ? Not very current on the MySQL interface.
TIA...
I ran the cron job with
Tue, 06/10/2008 - 7:15pm
I ran the cron job with webmin and got this back:
Output from command find /var/lib/asterisk/backups/Weekly/ -mtime +30 -exec .. find: missing argument to `-exec'
Got it working with this
Tue, 06/10/2008 - 7:32pm
phonebuff,
See my post of
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 9:28am
phonebuff,
See my post of maintaining CDR sizes:
http://trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/help/mysql-cdr-table-siz...
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