On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 03:18 -0500, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> Thomas von Eyben wrote: >> > I wish to use rsync to create a backup BUT only keep the files for a >> > limited period of time, EG two weeks. >> > I have not yet been able to figure out how to do this inside rsync >> > (while the backup is being performed) and my understanding of the >> > "--delete" flag is not for this wish. >> > >> > My plan is - unless I find out that it indeed is possible with rsync - >> > to make a cronjob removing files older than X in the folder containing >> > the backups… >> >> You can do something like >> >> "rsync OPTIONS --rsync-path="find /root-dir/ -mtime +14 -delete ; rsync" >> SRC DEST" > > If you count the two-week period from the mtime of the file, then > backups of really old files will be deleted as soon as they are saved. > I think it would make more sense to count from the time the backup file > is saved. To do that, use a separate --backup-dir each day (e.g., > --backup-dir=../backups/$(date +%Y-%m-%d) ) and simply delete each > backup dir as a whole when it becomes two weeks old. > > The only disadvantage is that with multiple backup dirs, it becomes less > trivial to find backups of a particular path, but it would be easy to > write a script to help with this. > > Matt > >
Actually, I think I need to be a little more specific (now I think about it): I only want to keep the files that are deleted on the source for the additional period of two weeks. So I want to keep the back up identical to the source, just not deleting files in the backup that are deleted in the source (should be fairly easy with rsync ;-) BUT I only want to keep these deleted-on-source files for an additional period of two weeks… - TvE -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
