remove old backup automatically.

[Harish]

In JIRA 4.4.5 we have a daily xml backup happening and it gets stored in the Export folder under JIRA_HOME.

Is there a way we can have only a weeks backup and the older ones gets deleted automatically.

[Herbert Ncube · Accepted solution]

You can write a bash script that deletes everything older than say 7days or a month and put it on the cron.

This will help restore disk space

[Elia Oggian]

do a cron with this command:

find /home/jira/application-data/jira/export -name '*.zip' -mtime +20 -exec rm {} \;

[Fermulator]

do we have any opensource/shared scripts kicking around?

[philoye]

(Wrong post)

[Fermulator]

existing ticket btw https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2231

[Carsten Junker]

This is NOT related to this question. Your link provides the information neccessary for confluence, not for jira.

[Harish]

the only way to delete older backups is to write a cronjob.

[Naren]

You can write a cron job / batch file for this . Also you can have a look at below useful link to overwrite the jira backup.

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/119016/can-backups-be-set-to-overwrite

[Jeffery Bennett]

This response doesn't work as JIRA doesn't appear to overwrite automated backups with the same file name.