Auto delete old snapshots

[h4nc]

Hi,

does anyone of you have a automation to delete old snapshots.

I’m syncing my backup folder with my nas and I’d like to autodelete backups which are older than x days.

Thanks

[tom_l]

You and me both. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

Delete old backups shell command error

I have a shell command to delete old backups that runs every night, right after I make my nightly backup. The backup works but the deletion fails. shell_command: delete_old_snapshots: find /backup/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; The error received is: Error running command: `find /backup/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;`, return code: 1 NoneType: None I’m running hassio on a raspi 3. I can see backups older than 30 days in the SAMBA /backup/ share. Any idea why this fails? Also just FIY these b…

[h4nc]

Ok, seems like there is no solution to do this on the hassio itself. Thanks

[DavidFW1960 (David)]

I’ve been using the Dropbox addon to do this (it will keep x snapshots) and then in Windows I delete files older than x days. Mind you the Dropbox addon stopped deleting after 0.79 but I expect it will be fixed soon.

[junja430 (Tom)]

So I wrote a custom service that you can write an automation with. Delete old backups shell command error I hope this helps someone.