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: 2 hilabete

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Current versions available: 2

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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
ar., 2020(e)ko ots.ren 11(e)an, 22:20(e)tan
Approval issue created: CONTRIB-7984
Pavel Lomov
ar., 2021(e)ko urr.ren 12(e)an, 23:48(e)tan
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
al., 2022(e)ko abe.ren 5(e)an, 22:45(e)tan
I did the cleaning through the web admin but it didn't release the space informed, even after running cron.
Nora Colazzo
ar., 2022(e)ko abe.ren 6(e)an, 06:18(e)tan
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
ar., 2022(e)ko abe.ren 6(e)an, 06:32(e)tan
There has been no update to this plugin recently.

Let me test this and address the above concerns.
Shubhendra Doiphode
az., 2022(e)ko abe.ren 7(e)an, 07:44(e)tan
I have added CLI_SCRIPT in index.php.
Shubhendra Doiphode
az., 2022(e)ko abe.ren 7(e)an, 17:23(e)tan
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
og., 2024(e)ko mai.ren 23(e)an, 17:28(e)tan
Interesting Plugin.
But i missed some Features.
* remove only Backups ago xxx Days (specified on settings page)
* scheduled task
Shubhendra Doiphode
al., 2024(e)ko eka.ren 10(e)an, 05:22(e)tan
Hi Pia,

Thank you for the suggestions.

I have added the requested features in the updated version.

Regards
Melvyn Gomez
or., 2024(e)ko uzt.ren 26(e)an, 05:27(e)tan
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
og., 2024(e)ko abu.ren 1(e)an, 01:29(e)tan
Hi Melvyn, the bug has now been fixed in the latest update.