Check the man pages for find, there are many options you could use. Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 15:55, Packets Serafica <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm almost done on my script. I'm just thinking if there are other > parameters in find wherein I can search the files by month and not by > mtime (modification time) and then tar it. > > Jeremiah Bess wrote: > > For 1, best option is to run this script as a cron job when there is > > little load on the server (midnight for example). > > For 2, a simple for loop will run the backup commands for each user in > > "/home". Example: "for user in /home/*; do {backup and delete > > commands}; done". You would use $user/Maildir/backup as the variable > > in the commands. > > For 3, I use the command "find $BACKUPDIR -mtime +68 -delete" to keep > > just over 2 months of backups, and then delete them. I use +68 so it > > keeps a full week plus one day accounting for 31 days in a single > > month. You can modify this and add to the for loop. > > > > > > <http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
