Script to cleanup make_net_recovery archives and dir /var/opt/ignite/clients....

[ramprakash surulirajan]

Does anyone have a script(korn shell/bourne shell) that cleansup make_net_recovery archives and also corresponding files/directory in /var/opt/ignite/clients//recovery on an Ignite server that are older than say for e.g. 60 days.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

I would let make_net_recovery handle it than writing my own script. By default, make_net_recovery will keep two archives. Next time it will remove the oldest archive after creating the archive.

You can write a script using find and mtime. But if you don't create any archive in 120days, you will not have any archives for that client left on the ignite server. So I lean towards letting make_net_recovery handle it.

-Sri

[ramprakash surulirajan]

Sri,

In my work place we run make_net_recovery every month on a client system so removing older ones is not a problem.We want to have make_net_recovery itself do the cleanup when it runs the 3rd time on a client but sometimes we rebuild a server,decommission a server and a make_net_recovery has n't been done for some months in which case there are archives for that client that are sitting out there for several days consuming disk space.It would be more appropriate if we removed the older ones.I am writing a script using find like
find $Archives_Dir -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
find /var/opt/ignite/clients/*/recovery -type f -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
When I use ll instead of rm in -exec option I see the files in sub-directories below /var/opt/ignite/clients/*/recovery being selected for removal which is what I expected but it does n't list out the sub-directory itself for removal even If I try it with type d or without a type option at all.Can you throw some light on this piece of the script.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

I would write like this

find $DIR -mtime +60 |xargs rm -rf

If you are two particular, you can do

find $DIR \( -type f -o -type d \) -mtime +60 |xargs rm -rf

-Sri

[ramprakash surulirajan]

Thanks Sri for your answer.I tried find with rm -rf on some files/dirs in my home dir which works.I do know it will work when I do
find /var/opt/ignite/clients/*/recovery -type d -mtime +60 -exec rm -rf {} \;

but I do not want to use rm -rf.(rm or rmdir will be fine but not rm -rf).

[Donny Jekels]

You already have more than enough responses for cleaning old ignite archives.

here is two scripts I wrote to report on all my make_net_recovery archive.logs in the last 5 days.

update the script variables, chmod and run.

enjoy,
Donny

[Donny Jekels]

sorry, forgot the attach the scripts.

and this forum only accept one attachment per submission.

here is the perl script that sends the report in html format.

[Donny Jekels]

and now for the main engine.