Hi All

I have a little script that backs up to file and then copies to a USB key like so.....

# Remove old backup files to preserve space
rm -f /backup/Full*
# backup what I want and exclude some stuff
tar -zcvf /backup/"Full-Backup-$(date +"%d-%b-%y").tar.gz" --totals --exclude=*.mp3 /etc /home
# stop MySQL server to backup CRM
/etc/init.d/mysqld stop
# Backup CRM
tar -zcvf /backup/"Full-CRM-Backup-$(date +"%d-%b-%y").tar.gz" /var/lib/mysql/crmdb
# Restart MySQL
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
# Remove files from key, and copy new backups
rm -f /media/usbkey/Full*
cp /backup/Full* /media/usbkey

This works just fine, however I would like to keep two days worth of backups as opposed to one. Perhaps I need to use something with the date variable, along the lines of.... "if date of the file is todays date -2 then delete otherwise leave it"

Any help appreciated (note - I am not usually a scripting kinda guy!)

Here's what I use

find /storage/backups/ -name '*' -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm -f {} \;

Clearly this keeps up to 30 days (of weekly full backups)

Thanks - I can understand most of this too!