On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:25 -0700 Craig Hartnett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, but wow, that seems unnecessarily complicated and > time-consuming. > > I think I'll stop naming my back-ups with a time stamp and just use a > date stamp, and then in my back-up script (which I run once daily) > I'll use "date" to calculate a date x days in the past and delete > that single archive. Since this machine isn't on 24/7 I'll have to > manually remove archives once in a while, but that's preferable to > the current situation. Before re-inventing the wheel, take a look at ACTS: https://www.tarsnap.com/helper-scripts.html
