backup-clean v1.0.2

Backup Clean CLI Tool

Install with npm i -g backup-clean

This small cli tool is used daily on a NAS to clean the backups directories for databases and sites, but can really be used on any directory where files are timestamped.
The script runs over the specified folder and finds the appropriate backup scheme for the directory. This scheme changes over time as more backups are added perhaps everyday.

Example
Backing up your database on a daily basis is a good practice.
But backups for large databases can after many days, perhaps years take up a LOT of space on the drives in which they reside.
If you have near 2 years of backups, where backups have been taken on a daily basis, maybe even twice a day, you lose some of that, perhaps, valuable space.
So maybe cleaning up the older backups to only save one backup per month is sufficient, but still always keeping the latest 30 days should anything critical occur.

That is what this backup tool aims to achieve.
Though currently in a very simplified way.

Development

Run npm install in the project root first

When testing locally it is easiest to do so with npm link in the project root The command backup-clean will then be available for use After testing is done, run npm unlink

You can copy over files from week, month or half-year in the test-data directory to the temp folder in the test-data directory for testing purposes.
You would then run the command up against that directory (see command usage below).

The backup-clean command usage

Command usage backup-clean --directory <PATH>
PATH: Directory that contains the backup files with timestamps in their name