Only 25 backups?

[abbas]

Hello all.

I just noticed that there are only 25 backups in the backup directory despite setting backups to 99.

Any ideas? If not, I will just setup a nightly cron to move the files to a different directory to preserve them. Maybe even put them into some date order directory and push them to google.

Thanks.

[bkm]

If you are going to go through all the trouble to setup a cron job to manage the standard backups, then why not just take over the backup process yourself and then you can have complete control over how many, their naming, their frequency, and just about anything else you can think of managing.

I wrote a post some time abgo for how to do this and it would take you about the same amount of time to setup as it would to start writing your own cron jobs to manage this stuff. My post also uses a single cron entry to do the same thing but with more options.

Read here:

[Tutorial] Step by Step Guide to the Poor Man's Backup System (v2) much improved

Recently I was talking with some other users about the missing elements in my first backup tutorial and how that might be resolved. So, here it is. This version of the Poor Man’s Backup system is presented here only to let you know it exists. Since the forums take away my ability to edit the text after a few weeks, these tutorials become stale if I cannot update them to current. So you will now find my [Tutorials] will start appearing on GitHub at this location: BKM’s ERPNext Guides This way I…

BKM

[abbas]

Thank you for the reply.

I have read your excellent post… which I don’t quite need yet.

In terms of backup, the crob job is set to hourly which is fine. The job I am referring to would simply move the backup files to another directory outside erpnext.

I have already created a simply “restore” script which simply requires the timestamp of the backup to restore and will restore both the DB (bench --site x --force restore sqlfile) and untar the files to the private files directory.

Thanks.