tar files that are more than x days old & dir with spaces

j-me · 08-23-2013, 12:52 PM

I have been struggling with this for a few days and need some divine assistance.
I have a requirement to read a cifs share folder, any files in the folder/subfolder(s) that are more than six days old need to be zipped and moved to an achieve location then removed ... caveat is that the integrity of the folder structure must be maintained even if folder is empty. NO folder deletion!!
Oh, and some folder names have spaces in them so have to allow for that.

here is what I have tried thus far:

Code:

find /mnt/bus_pc/phoesb04/Salvage -type f -mtime +6 | xargs -d "\n" tar -czvPf /mnt/midtier_logsarchive/phoesb04/Salvage/Salvage_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz

seems to work on the spaces in the folder, however, it only tar/zip the last folder processed.

I copied the cifs to local to work on and see if it was something to do with the cifs being actively connected to Biztalk environment.

Code:

tar -czvPf ~/PolicyService_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz /tmp/bus_pc/phoesb04/PolicyService/

works!!
but when I ran the above script pointing to the local copy, same results as when on the cifs.

Code:

find /tmp/bus_pc/phoesb04/PolicyService -type f -mtime +6 | xargs -d "\n" tar -czvPf ~/PolicyService_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz;

only last dir processed

Code:

 
 find /mnt/bus_pc/phoesb04/PolicyService -type f -mtime +6 -exec tar -czvPf ~/PolicyService_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz {} \;

only last dir processed

shouldn't be this difficult so what am I missing here. Thank you!

Firerat · 08-23-2013, 01:10 PM

with your last one , change the \; to +

that will pass all results to tar once (at the end), instead of executing tar for each line

j-me · 08-23-2013, 01:58 PM

Code:

find /mnt/bus_pc/phoesb04/PolicyService -type f -mtime +6 -exec tar -czvPf ~/PolicyService_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz {} +

did not work ... same results. ty

schneidz · 08-23-2013, 02:07 PM

i tested it and it did work for me.

colucix · 08-23-2013, 02:24 PM

To maintain the directory structure you must search for directories independently from their modification time. To manage blank spaces in file or directory names use -print0 and the matching option -0 of xargs. In addition use --no-recursion otherwise directories will be archived twice (the find command already does recursion so you have to avoid that tar do the same). Maybe something like this is what you're looking for

Code:

find /mnt/bus_pc/phoesb04/PolicyService \( -mtime +6 -type f -o -type d \) -print0 | xargs -0 tar --no-recursion -czPf ~/PolicyService_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz

Firerat · 08-23-2013, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j-me

Code:

find /mnt/bus_pc/phoesb04/PolicyService -type f -mtime +6 -exec tar -czvPf ~/PolicyService_`date -d "yesterday" +%Y%m%d`.tgz {} +

did not work ... same results. ty

odd, it _should_ work..

anyway, I think colucix's is much better, since it has the empty dir which I missed