Scheduled FTP backups and unwanted 'server repository' copies

[KeithSav]

I am using 3 servers with Plesk 10 & 11 running 30+ websites. Each website has a scheduled account backup to a external FTP server. Every time the backups run a copy of the backup file gets stored in the 'Servers' repository. This occurs even though I have it set to only store the last 2 recent backups. As you can see this compounds local storage problems quickly. I may only have 2 backups on my FTP but 15-20 (since my last manual delete) in the servers repository.

Does anyone have a workaround or fix for this issue?

 

[abdi]

Deleting Backups

Usually if the backup has been moved to the FTP respitory successfully, then the local copy would be deleted.

Optionally, Set a Cron Job to clean the local backup Resp.

vim /root/bk_cleanup.sh

and add the following:

#!/bin/sh backup_dumps_delete#
# Delete backup more than 90 days old.
#
backupDir="/var/lib/psa/dumps"
#
daysToKeep=30
echo "Checking for files older than $daysToKeep days in $backupDir"
listOfFiles=`find $backupDir -mtime +$daysToKeep`
if [ ! -z $listOfFiles ]
then
echo "Found [$listOfFiles]"
else
echo "None found."
fi
for toDelete in $listOfFiles
do
echo "Deleting $toDelete"
rm -rf $toDelete
done
echo "Done.

then again,

crontab -e

and add the following line:

0 1 * * * sh /root/bk_cleanup.sh