Housekeeping task

[Son dam bi]

In my system , there are many large files are generated to the system time by time , I would like to do the housekeeping task to archive the files to keep the server clean but still can let the user to extract the files when they required , can advise if I have below requirement

1) keep the files ( that the creation day is within 2 months ) in the system , remove the files are elder than 2 months .
2) keep all files that created on monthly end in the system .


I know tar -zcvf can achive the files and append the files to it , but is it possible also to use tar to keep the files are within 2 months ? if not , what is the best way to do the housekeeping in my case ? thx a lot




find . -type f -mtime +60 -exec tar zcvf {} file \;

[Laurent Menase]

something like

#!/usr/bin/ksh
function roll
{
typeset x
name=$1
set -- $name.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].gz
if [ $1 = $name'.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].gz' ]
then
return 0
fi
x=${1%.gz}
typeset -i y=${x##*.}
typeset -i idx=$y
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
x=${1%.gz}
y=${x##*.}
if [[ y > idx ]]
then
idx=y
fi
shift
done
idx=idx+10001
typeset -i idx2=0
while [[ $idx != 10000 ]]
do
idx2=idx-1
n1=$name.${idx#1}.gz
n2=$name.${idx2#1}.gz
if [ -f $n2 ]
then
mv $n2 $n1
fi
idx=idx2
done
}

mkdir archive
find . \( -name archive -prune -type f \) -o -type f -mtime +60 |
while read a
do
roll archive/$a
mv $a archive.0000
gzip archive/$a.0000
done
and start this in a cron

[Rita C Workman]

Create a mountpoint with enough disk and adjust your find statement to include full path and either cp (and later remove) or just move (mv) them to new archive mountpoint.
Here's one that looks for specific filename, owned by specific user, & over xx days old:

find /dir1/dir2 \( -name -filename* -a -user johndoe \) -mtime +60 -exec mv {} /archive1/dir2 \+

...or you can end it with \; like you have.

Just a thought,
Rgrds,
Rita

[Son dam bi]

thx replies ,

thx Laurent Menase 's work , but the method seems too complicate for me ..

Laurent Menase ,

your method move old file to archive dir , but can it handle the monthly file , if I want to archive the monthly file , what can i do ? thx

[Laurent Menase]

what do you mean by archive the monthly files?

do you mean you want to keep all the files archived month/month?

[Son dam bi]

thx,

thx reply ,

what I want is just to keep the month end files ( eg. 31-Jan , 28-Feb , 31-Mar , 30-Apr , 31-May ... )

For simply , tar command can do this request ?

Thx

[Laurent Menase]

can you just draw an example of what your dir hierarchy looks like, and what would be the result.. and example always worth long explanations

[Son dam bi]

thx reply,

if today is 29-Aug-09 , in the archive , the user can see the files from 29-Jun-09 to 29-Aug-09 and monthly files 31-Jan , 28-Feb , 31-Mar , 30-Apr , 31-May 30-


if today is 30-Aug-09 , in the archive , the user can see the files from 30-Jun-09 to 30-Aug-09 and monthly files 31-Jan , 28-Feb , 31-Mar , 30-Apr , 31-May 30-


if today is 31-Aug-09 , in the archive , the user can see the files from 1-Jun-09 to 31-Aug-09 and monthly files 31-Jan , 28-Feb , 31-Mar , 30-Apr , 31-May 30-

if today is 1-Sep-09 , in the archive , the user can see the files from 1-July-09 to 1-Sep-09 and monthly files 31-Jan , 28-Feb , 31-Mar , 30-Apr , 31-May 30-,30-Jun-09

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if today is 1-Oct-09 , in the archive , the user can see the files from 1-Aug-09 to 1-Oct-09 and monthly files 31-Jan , 28-Feb , 31-Mar , 30-Apr , 31-May 30-,30-Jun-09 , 31-Jul-09