i've got a remote FTP server where i store some backups via cronjob.
The Problem is that i only got a little amount of space so im doing incremental backups. I want to keep the backups about 14 days.
I don't have any other access to the server except FTP and i don't now how to delete files older than x days. Every file got a name with a date in it
yxzNamezxy-date-y-m-d.tar.bz2 (datev-20100111.tar.bz2(
Hope to get some help here.
Cheers and thanks for the hopefully coming answeres,
Dennis
/Edit
I'm trying to use the curl thing which is mantioned in an answere with this part of code
curl ftp://$FTP_SERVER --user $FTP_USER:$FTP_PASS --list-only > files.tmp
declare -a aFiles
let iCount=0
exec < files.tmp
while read sLine
do
aFiles[$iCount]=$sLine
((iCount++))
done
echo -e "\n Files: \n\n\n"
echo ${aFiles[@]}
echo -e "\nfor ...\n\n\n"
for sFile in $aFiles
do
echo -e "\nFile:" $sFile
done
but the secound loop doesn't give me more than 1 filename
Cheers,
Dennis