Deleting Old Backups

[wacowonk]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version: CentOS 7.9.2009
**Webmin version:**1.979
**Virtualmin version:**6.19
**Related products version:**Authentic Theme 19.83-RC4-3

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I need to gain a better understand of how the auto-deletion of old backups work. The documentation states that you must use a date based naming for this to work. However, I have had this turned on now for 2 months (both FTP (FTP turned off over a month ago) and AWS setups) and it has yet to delete backups over 30 days old. I am using AWS S3 as my backup storage. The emails that I get from the system clearly state it is not deleting and the AWS S3 still show the backups.

I feel like I am missing something. Here is a screenshot of the settings I am using:

[wacowonk]

Does anyone have any idea as to why backups aren’t deleting?

[Ilia]

@Jamie have we already fixed in upstream an issue with deleting old backups when strftime-style time substitutions on file/directory is used?

[Jamie]

Do the buckets you’re creating have names starting with [D]- ?

[wacowonk]

Yes they do. I originally had it at the end but never worked.

[Jamie]

I’m wondering if the [ ] characters are causing problems somehow?

[wacowonk]

@Jamie so I tried removing the [ ] characters and changed the age date to 3 days and it still doesn’t work.

What am I doing wrong?

[Jamie]

What output do you get if you SSH into your Virtualmin system as root and run virtualmin list-s3-files --bucket www-backup-guava --multiline

That will show if the dates are being parsed properly by Virtualmin.

[wacowonk]

Sorry for the delay, it is now working as it should. Just took some time to get going.