topic Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI in Firewall and Security Management

Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

the_rock — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 13:45:20 GMT

Hello everyone,

I know CP does not support scripts officially, so just wondering, is there any supported way to delete any scheduled backup from web UI thats say older than 90 days? I have a customer that is running scheduled backup locally on their 16000 appliance and they dont wish to keep anything for more than 3 months, but I cant find any option to do so either in web UI or from object properties in dashboard.

Im really looking for something similar to R77.x days from database revision, where you could choose when you wanted to start deleting old revisions...

Possible?

Any help would be appreciated.

Ty!

Andy

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:37:19 GMT

I would suggest to call a scheduled script in GAiA WebGUI that removes old backups.

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

the_rock — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:55:20 GMT

Thanks Albrecht...can you please tell me which script you are referring to? I dont see anything like that in web UI.

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:05:18 GMT

Sorry - i suggested to write a script in bash and clish and call it scheduled from System Management > Job Scheduler.

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

the_rock — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:48:06 GMT

Ok, I see what you mean now :). I know people do that, but I was hoping there was something "built in" that does not require doing this, but I guess not...

Andy

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

Dov_Fraivert — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:28:56 GMT

We have added to R81 the ability to limit the number of Snapshots to be saved, so that when there is more than the set number, the oldest will be deleted.
For Backup there is no such capability yet, however, it is planned for future versions.

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

the_rock — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:19:12 GMT

Sorry, not the best in scripting...do you know of any such script I can use or does one exist that CP customers would use for this purpose that can either be imported from cli or GUI or ran as a cron job?

Thanks in advance.

Andy

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

funkylicious — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:34:41 GMT

You can try and run this command, manually, after backing up the files in another location.

find/var/log/CPbackup/backups/ *-mtime +90 -exec rm {} \;

If it gives you what you want, you can schedule a crontab following :

https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&solutionid=sk77300

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

the_rock — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 18:54:29 GMT

Thanks for the info...so that command would search for any backup older than 90 days I presume? I would have to read the sk and see what the steps are.

Andy

Re: Deleting older backups from scheduled backup option in web UI

jadhavvishal219 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:14:43 GMT

Hi Dov, can you please update if this option is available now on R80.40