Auto delete files after certain age?

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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I have my network surveillance camera set to up load saved video every night. Is there any way to set up a script to auto delete files older then 30 days on the mycloud. I would only have to run it once a week to keep the file numbers down.

Any hints or tips??

Thanks,

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Hello,

Unfortunately the My Cloud does not have this as an option. Let’s see what other users can comment on this.

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bustedbudget wrote:

I have my network surveillance camera set to up load saved video every night. Is there any way to set up a script to auto delete files older then 30 days on the mycloud. I would only have to run it once a week to keep the file numbers down.

 

Any hints or tips??

 

Thanks,

That would be pretty simpel using a bash script or perl.

Maybe you can motivate Ralphael

However, I do not think that with current firmware you will be happy with MyCloud.

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I think you can make CRON entries into MyCloud. 

Here’s an example of a CRON entry which should delete files older than 30 days although I have not tested it.  You’d have to SSH into your MyCloud and enter something similar to this via crontab -e

0 0 * * * find $HOME/foldername/ -name ‘*’ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} ; >>

This will run everyday at midnight and will delete files in $HOME/foldername older than 30 days.

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