Comments on: remove old backups automatically with cron

By: huned

huned — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:58:57 +0000

true, sort of. but depends if you want to rely on mtime or the directory names to tell you what the outdated backups are.

also, you missed the rm part :) ... -exec rm -rf

Brent Fitzgerald — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:53:02 +0000

hey, i think you could also do something like this?

find /path/to/backups -mtime +30 -exec -rf {} \;