Clear Backup Files

Administration tools ::: tool_clearbackupfiles

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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: 6 ヶ月

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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
2020年 02月 11日(火) 22:20
Approval issue created: CONTRIB-7984
Pavel Lomov
2021年 10月 12日(火) 23:48
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
2022年 12月 5日(月) 22:45
I did the cleaning through the web admin but it didn't release the space informed, even after running cron.
Nora Colazzo
2022年 12月 6日(火) 06:18
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
2022年 12月 6日(火) 06:32
There has been no update to this plugin recently.

Let me test this and address the above concerns.
Shubhendra Doiphode
2022年 12月 7日(水) 07:44
I have added CLI_SCRIPT in index.php.
Shubhendra Doiphode
2022年 12月 7日(水) 17:23
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
2024年 05月 23日(木) 17:28
Interesting Plugin.
But i missed some Features.
* remove only Backups ago xxx Days (specified on settings page)
* scheduled task
Shubhendra Doiphode
2024年 06月 10日(月) 05:22
Hi Pia,

Thank you for the suggestions.

I have added the requested features in the updated version.

Regards
Melvyn Gomez
2024年 07月 26日(金) 05:27
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
2024年 08月 1日(木) 01:29
Hi Melvyn, the bug has now been fixed in the latest update.
Ricardo Caiado
2025年 01月 29日(水) 23:37
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