Purge Old Files Script

[Darin Perusich]

one thing that you might find interesting is rsync these files daily, or 
multiple times daily to another server. this really saves on restore 
time when joe luser accidently deletes a file. we've setup multiple 
levels of rsync here, this way we can to back and get files that are a 
few days old and if they dont' exist then we go to tape.

Justin Bennett wrote:
> I hear you, everything is backed up nightly to tape. So if they loose
> something I could get it back, I have been pushing for quotas for a while,
> however management is reluctant to go that route. Don't ask me why.
> Anyways I'll take a look at this. I'm not so worried about symlinks and
> such, no user has shell acces on this box, only via samba, but I hear the
> concern.
> 
> Thanks
> Justin
> 
> Jason Parker-Burlingham said:
> 
>>"Justin Bennett" <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>ok will put something based on this info, thanks everyone who
>>>replied. I assume the -type f is files, howbout blowing away empty
>>>directories then?
>>
>>Why reinvent the wheel?
>>
>>tmpreaper is what you want; someone else has already done the dirty work
>>of deciding what is and what is not appropriate to do when search for,
>>and deleting files like this.  Doing it yourself will only open you up
>>to mistakes which are potentially *VERY* costly (have you
>>considered what would happen if the search followed a symlink back to
>>/etc, for example?).
>>
>>I imagine tmpreaper is available for most Linux distrubutions (it's
>>available for Debian users) or can be compiled with little effort,
>>probably less than it would to cover all bases yourself.
>>
>>Alternatively, I find a good quota system ensures users either clean up
>>files on their own, or come to me to explain why they need more space.
>>
>>On the gripping hand, you may also want to look into ensuring the
>>files are backed up somewhere before they are deleted in case a
>>deletion catches one of your users (and you) by surprise.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>jason
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com