Clear Backup Files

Administration tools ::: tool_clearbackupfiles
Maintained by Shubhendra Doiphode
Course backups can be an expensive task at times. It could take loads of unnecessary space and memory on the server. Administrators can clear backup files on the server to free the server space.
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package: tool_clearbackupfiles

This admin tool clears all backup files from the server. It is useful for freeing up space from dev and test servers once they are refreshed from production.

It also gives a report og how many mbz files were deleting clearing how much space.

Instructions:

the backup files can be deleted from /admin/tool/clearbackupfiles/index.php and you can find logs at /report/log/index.php. The default moodle events is used to create log entry.

The plugin also has a setting to enter number of days and associated scheduled task to do the cleanup automatically.

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  • Plugins bot
    Plugins bot
    Tue, 11 Feb 2020, 10:20 PM
    Approval issue created: CONTRIB-7984
  • Pavel Lomov
    Pavel Lomov
    Tue, 12 Oct 2021, 11:48 PM
    I get cli - error when start index.php :

    root@moodle:/etc# php -f /srv/www/htdocs/moodle/admin/tool/clearbackupfiles/index.php
    Command line scripts must define CLI_SCRIPT before requiring config.php

    moodle 3.6.5
  • Rodrigo Ribeiro
    Rodrigo Ribeiro
    Mon, 5 Dec 2022, 10:45 PM
    I did the cleaning through the web admin but it didn't release the space informed, even after running cron.
  • Nora Colazzo
    Nora Colazzo
    Tue, 6 Dec 2022, 6:18 AM
    I'm just wondering if there have been any changes to this plugin so it works without the issues raised on this page?
  • Shubhendra Doiphode
    Shubhendra Doiphode
    Tue, 6 Dec 2022, 6:32 AM
    There has been no update to this plugin recently.

    Let me test this and address the above concerns.
  • Shubhendra Doiphode
    Shubhendra Doiphode
    Wed, 7 Dec 2022, 7:44 AM
    I have added CLI_SCRIPT in index.php.
  • Shubhendra Doiphode
    Shubhendra Doiphode
    Wed, 7 Dec 2022, 5:23 PM
    The other issue reported by Rodrigo should be resolved.

    I would suggest to create a issue on the repository for any future bugs.
    https://github.com/doiphode/moodle-tool_clearbackupfiles/issues

    Thanks
  • Pia Liersch
    Pia Liersch
    Thu, 23 May 2024, 5:28 PM
    Interesting Plugin.
    But i missed some Features.
    * remove only Backups ago xxx Days (specified on settings page)
    * scheduled task
  • Shubhendra Doiphode
    Shubhendra Doiphode
    Mon, 10 June 2024, 5:22 AM
    Hi Pia,

    Thank you for the suggestions.

    I have added the requested features in the updated version.

    Regards
  • Melvyn Gomez
    Melvyn Gomez
    Fri, 26 July 2024, 5:27 AM
    i had installed this plugin in Moodle 4.1.11 and i found that is deleting backups after i made, maybe 1 or 2 minutes after the backup creation and it was configured to delete backup from last 5 days, don't know if is a bug, but i ended uninstalling the plugin.
  • Shubhendra Doiphode
    Shubhendra Doiphode
    Thu, 1 Aug 2024, 1:29 AM
    Hi Melvyn, the bug has now been fixed in the latest update.
  • Ricardo Caiado
    Ricardo Caiado
    Wed, 29 Jan 2025, 11:37 PM
    Hi,

    When acessing "Scheduled Tasks" (/admin/tool/task/scheduledtasks.php), the task name is not showing correctly:

    crontask
    \tool_clearbackupfiles\task\cron_task

    Using "Brazilian Portuguese (pt_br)" language.

    Ricardo
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