need command to move folders older than 4 days to a bad up directory

calicowboy54 · 01-15-2012, 08:32 PM

I have several folders below in a directory that i need to have moved to a backup nas based on there older date....

20111225
20111226
20111227
20111228
20111229
20111230
20111231
20120101

i need to move above directories and all sub content to folder

back_up_data

can someone help me with command that i will put in to a script to cron this out...

calicowboy54 · 01-15-2012, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by calicowboy54

I have several folders below in a directory that i need to have moved to a backup nas based on there older date....

/var/logfiles/

20111225
20111226
20111227
20111228
20111229
20111230
20111231
20120101

i need to move above directories and all sub content to folder

back_up_data

can someone help me with command that i will put in to a script to cron this out...

Sorry i need to be more specific...

i need to Script this out where there are about 50files in Directory /var/logfiles/

they are stored in directories named like this

20111228

I need to move all the folders in that directory that are older than 5 days to another directory called /usr/nas_share_link/archvies

this is due to limited space on the /var/ directory so i need to move stuff off as new folders are being created with data inside them......

thanks

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djlewis78 · 01-15-2012, 09:23 PM

can you not just use

find /var/logfiles/ -ctime +5 -exec mv '{}' /usr/nas_share_link/archvies \;

havent tested it but is should be close to working.

onebuck · 01-15-2012, 09:24 PM

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