On 09/07/14 19:30, Bob wrote: > I am using freeBSD and just started tarsnap backups. I would like to > understand a reasonable way to do periodic deletes via cron. I have > named my backups "lilybackup-yyyy-mm-dd-hh:mm:ss". My hope is to be > able to delete backups older than 30 days. >
I'm sure there are many pre-rolled solutions for this, but this is the one that I use: https://github.com/alexjurkiewicz/acts A simple script for keeping daily/weekly/yearly backups and running pre-/post-backup scripts. Warren
