A script to find out tar.gz files and notify via email

Ajin

Hi Guys,

Have a project , which i am working on

I have a couple of servers based on linux OS.
Users will leave backups as tar.gz files back and i need to find out and remove them.
Need a script which searches and lists the tar.gz files in servers.
And have written a script for this , but this will only give the path and filename.

#Tar Files in the server.

rm -rf /home/tar.gz.txt
cd /home
find . -size +1M -name "*.tar.gz" > /home/tar.gz.txt && mail -s 'Tar_File Report' email@mydomain
< /home/tar.gz.txt

The output which i am planning to get is like the below .

List of tar files with path from each server as a consolidated e-mail
An e-mail should be triggered every month (a cron can be set for this)
The email should consist of the file path and a short note about the number of files and total size for the tar.gz files.

can i get some help on this please .

DustinB3403

So you want to manually remove the .gz files on a monthly basis?

Dashrender

Sounds like he just wants an email for now.

scottalanmiller

@Ajin said:

Remove cd /home and write your find statement like below:

> find /home -size +1M -name "*.tar.gz"

This is cleaner and easier to read and far, far safer in case of a typo or something. If that cd command failed for any reason your find would go haywire and potentially do bad things.

scottalanmiller

If you change your script to this, it will remove the files automatically without needing to email them or tell anyone.

#Tar Files in the server.
find /home -size +1M -name "*.tar.gz"  -exec rm -rf {} \;

DustinB3403

Rather than automatically removing the files why not move the files into a directory that can be clean up later?

While still emailing the original file location so if you have to restore you have a path to move them back to.

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said:

Rather than automatically removing the files why not move the files into a directory that can be clean up later?

While still emailing the original file location so if you have to restore you have a path to move them back to.

find /home -size +1M -name "*.tar.gz"  -exec mv {} /tmp/filestocleanup/ \;

Ajin

Thanks for your valuable suggestions DustinB3403 & scottalanmiller.

My goal is not to remove the files immediately but to get a notification email, verify with team and cleanup upon confirmation.

scottalanmiller

@Ajin said:

Thanks for your valuable suggestions DustinB3403 & scottalanmiller.

My goal is not to remove the files immediately but to get a notification email, verify with team and cleanup upon confirmation.

Okay, so no automatic removal.

Ajin

Yes , No automated removals.