Re: shell cript deleting backups

[Jan Leewe Behrendt <leewe.behrendt@web.de>]

hmm, despite the fact that it was originally designed for logfiles...
Isn't logrotate capable of doing exactly these things?

hope it helps... Leewe

Am Sonntag, 5. Juni 2005 20:02 schrieb mess-mate:
> Hi,
> i backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde
> backup utility)
> I've to delete manually older backups of these.
> The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz
> Is there a utility to delete oldest backups automatically or must it
> done with a shell script ?
> The difficulty resides to recognize the DATE of the backup.
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> mess-mate
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