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Scheduling file deletion
Absolute beginner with no NAS experience. I have a sql maintenance plan backing up data from the sql server to a share on the NAS. I need to create a clean up routine to delete files older than 3 ...
Thank You StephenB. I have a lot to learn. I'll put this solution in place.
It certainly should be possible to set up a cron job that uses the find command to delete files older than some amount, but that can't be done via the GUI and is not somethng I'd recommend a beginner try his hand at. A robocopy command on a Windows machine would be yet another way to do it. Using an rsync copy is the most straightforward method do-able via the GUI and strictly running on the NAS.
Sandshark wrote:
It certainly should be possible to set up a cron job that uses the find command to delete files older than some amount, but that can't be done via the GUI and is not somethng I'd recommend a beginner try his hand at.
I agree, it can be done that way but probably isn't best for a beginner to start with ssh.
Sandshark wrote:
A robocopy command on a Windows machine would be yet another way to do it.
Yes, and if the server is a windows machine, that is a reasonable way to do it.
Sandshark wrote:
Using an rsync copy is the most straightforward method do-able via the GUI and strictly running on the NAS.
Either using snapshot retention to save the previous 3 days, or by daisychaining backup jobs (setting up three backup shares, migrating backup2->backup3, backup1->backup2, and then server->backup1). The daisychaining requires some care on the timing, but since an OS 6 NAS will back up from a snapshot it is more robust than with OS 6 than it is on OS 4.2 or OS 5.
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