Shell script for Archive and remove old files.

Shell script for Archive and remove old files.

cd /var/spool

ls -l |grep ^d |awk '{print $NF}' |while read folder
# if find command support -maxdepth  option
# find . -maxdepth 1 -type d |while read folder
do
  mkdir -p /backup/spool/$folder
  find $folder -mtime +15 -exec mv {} /backup/spool/$folder \; 
  cd /backup/spool
  tar -cvzf "$folder-`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`.zip" $folder
 # Below commented line will backup the removing folders if needed. 
 # mv $folder*.tar /dump_restore/spool/
  cd /backup/spool/$folder/
  rm*
  cd /var/spool
done

Archiving Old files to one tar ball

cd /var/spool
find . -mtime +15 -type f  > /tmp/filelist
tar --create --gzip --files-from /tmp/filelist --file /dump_restore/spool/repository-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz
find . -mtime +15 -type f -exec rm {} \;

source : http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/158845-script-archiving-data-folderwise.html