Backup and delete files / logs by date

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Language: Bash

Posted by: Roman Ignatov

Added: Nov 22, 2016 4:34 PM

Tags: console

# find and backup and then remove all files with modified date till 2014 started etc
find . -not -newermt 20140101 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cvzf ./backup_2013.tar.gz && find . -not -newermt 20140101 -type f -delete
find . -not -newermt 20150101 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cvzf ./backup_2014.tar.gz && find . -not -newermt 20150101 -type f -delete