Laurent Pointal laurent.pointal at limsi.fr
Tue Jan 23 03:53:55 EST 2007

• Previous message (by thread): Removing outdated files
• Next message (by thread): beep or sound playing under linux
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

Jan Danielsson a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
>    I have a backup system which produces files using the following pattern:
...
> 
>    Obviously, I have little need for *all* those files. What I want to
> do is to delete old files according to this pattern:
> 
>    - Keep all backup files which are two weeks, or less, old
>    - If backups are more than two weeks old, then keep only the latest
> one for each week.
>    - If backups are more than two months old, then keep only the latest
> one for each month.
>    - If backups are more than two years old, then keep only the latest
> one for each year.

You should take a look at snapy, AFAIR it does things like this to
manage snapshot backups (with cp [+rsync] [+ssh]).

http://www.flibuste.net/libre/snapy/

---

• Previous message (by thread): Removing outdated files
• Next message (by thread): beep or sound playing under linux
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

---

More information about the Python-list mailing list