Comments on: Log Recycler Script

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:24:10 +0000

@Tom

The user variable can be tricky, and will not work if your using a web host or admin user to call scripts of another user.

But for crontabs edited within a user, the variable should work.

But resorting to fully qualified paths will *always* work.

Thanks for sharing your feedback!

By: Tom Coady

Tom Coady — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:10:39 +0000

I’m back! Just to say $HOME/purge.sh fails in cron, fixed with fully qualified path, 30 GB lighter now

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Backup all sub-directories with a Bash array loop | Edward A. Webb (.com) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:02:13 +0000

[...] you are curious about the script that will actually recycle old backups, then I suggest Log Recycler Script which could easily be updated to handle .tar.gz files instead of .sql.gz [...]

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:02:53 +0000

@Tom
Well I wouldn’t want to leave you hanging with a bunch of useless back logs. Glad they both worked so well for you. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Tom Coady

Tom Coady — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:23:30 +0000

Wow! Your backup script has worked perfectly, so much so I had to come back to see if there was any suggestions for purging the backlog I don’t need, and here it is, also working perfectly with a minimum of config Thanks!

By: CP

CP — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:54:21 +0000

I have halted all work on CP.com to focus on my newly acquired company/website. Maybe you have heard of it; Google. Its a nice little start-up.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:30:32 +0000

@CP
Hey friend, I’m sure you got great use from this post…can’t wait til CP.com is back up and running.

By: CP

CP — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:13:07 +0000

Yes, hmm I concur. Very well said.

By: Using crontab and shell scripts to automatically backup mysql databases | Edward A. Webb (.com)

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:17:09 +0000

[...] After 1 month thats ~150 files depending on the month. That’s why I also wrote a simple Recycler script to purge all old files. As soon as I draft that article I’ll ad the link [...]