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# 1  
Old 09-28-2011
Need help setting up script
Hello all, I am trying to setup a script that will copy any files older than 30 days in four directories to my windows box, then delete any files older than 30days in the four directories, verify that they are deleted, then send me a confirmation email.

I would like to set this up as a cron job to run once a week on Sunday at 9pm.

So far I have this for the script:

find /data/folder1/ -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f
find /data/folder2/ -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f
find /data/folder3/ -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f
find /data/folder4/ -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f

That is the portion for deleting the files, but I am not sure about copying the files first to my windows box, verifying they are deleted, then sending an email.

The box is solaris 8. I don't have much experience with Unix so I appreciate the help.
# 2  
Old 09-28-2011
gather your commands
Code:
find /data/folder[1-4] -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm -f

# 3  
Old 09-28-2011
Hi ctsgnb, thank you for the response. Actually they all have different names, I just labeled them as newfolder 1 etc.

Do you have any suggestions on:

Copying files older than 30 days to a windows box
Verifying that the script completed
Sending a confirmation email.

Thanks and I appreciate your time.
# 4  
Old 09-28-2011
The below script will do your work.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
EMAIL=""  ## To whom the list goes after completion
WINDOWS_SHARE="" ## Windows share where the files will be copied
for LOOK_DIR in folder1 folder2 folder3 folder4
do
for FILE in `find ${LOOK_DIR} -type f -mtime +30 -print`
do
echo ${FILE} >> file_list ## This file will have the list of files copied and removed
cp ${FILE} ${WINDOWS_SHARE} ## Copies your file to windows share
rm ${FILE}   ## Deletes the file
done
done
cat file_list | mailx -s "list of files copied and deleted" ${EMAIL}

You can customise the mailx command as you want.

Remember to put the email address and windows share mounted on your server inside the quotes for their variable.

Regards,
Vishal
# 5  
Old 09-28-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by vishalaswani
The below script will do your work.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
EMAIL=""  ## To whom the list goes after completion
WINDOWS_SHARE="" ## Windows share where the files will be copied
for LOOK_DIR in folder1 folder2 folder3 folder4
do
for FILE in `find ${LOOK_DIR} -type f -mtime +30 -print`
do
echo ${FILE} >> file_list ## This file will have the list of files copied and removed
cp ${FILE} ${WINDOWS_SHARE} ## Copies your file to windows share
rm ${FILE}   ## Deletes the file
done
done
cat file_list | mailx -s "list of files copied and deleted" ${EMAIL}

You can customise the mailx command as you want.

Remember to put the email address and windows share mounted on your server inside the quotes for their variable.

Regards,
Vishal
Awesome, thank you for the help!!

To edit my variables, does this sound about right?

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
EMAIL="user1@emailaddress.com, user2@emailaddress.com"  ## To whom the list goes after completion
WINDOWS_SHARE="\\windowsbox\file_backup" ## Windows share where the files will be copied
for LOOK_DIR in /data/folder1 /data/folder2 /data/folder3 /data/folder4
do
for FILE in `find ${LOOK_DIR} -type f -mtime +30 -print`
do
echo ${FILE} >> file_list ## This file will have the list of files copied and removed
cp ${FILE} ${WINDOWS_SHARE} ## Copies your file to windows share
rm ${FILE}   ## Deletes the file
done
done
cat file_list | mailx -s "Email Notification for Unix Server. Removal of old files" ${EMAIL}

Also to confirm, do I save this as a .sh or .ksh ?

Once again, thank you for your help!
# 6  
Old 10-04-2011
Your windows share doesn't appears correct, it has to be NFS mounted on your server, which I think needs some configuration on windows box, to enable NFS mounting of the share on Unix.

You can save it with any name you want, since we have specified which shell to use for executing [check the first line], but the best way to keep is .ksh as it will be executed on korn shell.

Regards,
Vishal
# 7  
Old 10-04-2011
Sorry to bump this thread. Would there be any way to tar the files before copying them to a windows share?

Also, what would be the easiest way to set this up as a cron job?

All the help is greatly appreciated.
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