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Clear Backup Files
Administration tool ::: 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.
Latest release:
634 sites
318 downloads
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Current versions available: 2
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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Contributors
Shubhendra Doiphode (Lead maintainer)
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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
Let me test this and address the above concerns.
I would suggest to create a issue on the repository for any future bugs.
https://github.com/doiphode/moodle-tool_clearbackupfiles/issues
Thanks
But i missed some Features.
* remove only Backups ago xxx Days (specified on settings page)
* scheduled task
Thank you for the suggestions.
I have added the requested features in the updated version.
Regards