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· Jun 21, 2016

Looking for a good routine/class for purging Caché backups

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A customer is using Caché online backups and needs to automatically purge the cbk files with a scheduled task.

This is a wheel has been reinvented uncountable times already and I know somebody out there has a well written, extremely robust version that has already stood the test of time.

Does anyone have a nice routine/class/task for purging old Caché backup files? 

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Jenna Poindexter · Jun 21, 2016

Funny you should ask this as I was just looking at how to do this today.  

Most operating systems offer a way to search for files given a certain filter, such as being older than a certain date, and then piping that list to another command, such as delete.

Here is a class method I wrote to do this on a Windows 2012 R2 server running Cache

ClassMethod PurgeFiles(Path As %String, OlderThan As %Integer)
{
    set Date=$zd($h-OlderThan)
    set cmd="forfiles /P "_Path_" /D -"_Date_" /C ""cmd /c del @path"""
    set sc=$zf(-1,cmd)
}

This method accepts a path and an integer indicating the number of days to keep files for.  It then uses constructs a command line which uses the "forfiles" command passing the path and a calculated date.  For each file it finds, it executes the command cmd /c del <path> which deletes the file.

There are probably more elegant ways to do this, cross platform compatible, but this is one solution that I had.

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Jenna Poindexter · Jun 23, 2016

Here's an example of how one might use the FileSet query in the %File class and the Delete class method in %File to purge backup files in a given directory before a given date.

/// Purge backups older than <var>DaysToKeep</var>
/// <var>Path</var> points to the directory path containing the backups.
/// Only *.cbk files will be purged
ClassMethod PurgeBackups(Directory As %String, DaysToKeep As %Integer = 14) As %Integer
{
	// Calculate the oldest date to keep files on or after
	set BeforeThisDate = $zdt($h-DaysToKeep_",0",3)

	// Gather the list of files in the specified directory
	set rs=##class(%ResultSet).%New("%File:FileSet")
	do rs.Execute(Directory,"*.cbk","DateModified")

	// Step through the files in DateModified order
	while rs.Next() {
		set DateModified=rs.Get("DateModified")
		if BeforeThisDate]DateModified {
			// Delete the file
			set Name=rs.Get("Name")
			do ##class(%File).Delete(Name)
		}
		// Stop when we get to files with last modified dates on or after our delete date
		if DateModified]BeforeThisDate quit
	}
}
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Stephen De Gabrielle · Dec 18, 2018

The article Recommendations on installing the InterSystems Caché DBMS for production environment  has some code that does this.

My comment  has a class that only deletes old backups as a scheduled task.

Kind regards,

Stephen

Class App.PurgeOldBackupFiles Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{

Property BackupsToKeep As %Integer(MAXVAL = 30, MINVAL = 1) [ InitialExpression = 30, Required ];

Property BackupFolder As %String [ Required ];

Property BackupFileType As %String [ Required ];

Method OnTask() As %Status
{
//s BackupsToKeep = 2
//s Folder = "c:\backupfolder"
//s BackupFileType = "FullAllDatabases" // or "FullDBList"

s SortOrder = "DateModified"

If ..BackupsToKeep<1 Quit $$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"Invalid - Number of Backups to Keep must be greater than or equal to 1")
If ..BackupFolder="" Quit $$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"Invalid - BackupFolder - not supplied")
if ..BackupFileType = "" Quit $$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"Invalid - BackupFileType - not supplied")
if (..BackupFileType '= "FullAllDatabases")&&(..BackupFileType '= "FullDBList") Quit $$$ERROR($$$GeneralError,"Invalid - BackupFileType")

s BackupCount=0
     k zPurgeOldBackupFiles(..BackupFileType)
     Set rs=##class(%ResultSet).%New("%Library.File:FileSet")
     w !,"backuplist",!

     s BackupFileWildcard = ..BackupFileType _ "*.cbk"
     set status=rs.Execute(..BackupFolder, BackupFileWildcard, SortOrder)
     WHILE rs.Next() {
          Set FullFileName=rs.Data("Name")
          Set FName=##class(%File).GetFilename(FullFileName)
          Set FDateTime=##class(%File).GetFileDateModified(FullFileName)
          w "File "_FName_" "_FDateTime,!
          Set FDate=$PIECE(FDateTime,",")
          Set CDate=$PIECE($H,",")
          s BackupCount=$I(BackupCount)
          s zPurgeOldBackupFiles(..BackupFileType, BackupCount)=FullFileName 
     }
     s zPurgeOldBackupFiles(..BackupFileType, "BackupCount")=BackupCount
     do rs.Close()
     if BackupCount > ..BackupsToKeep {
          for i=1:1:BackupCount-..BackupsToKeep {
               s FullFileName = zPurgeOldBackupFiles(..BackupFileType, i)
               d ##class(%File).Delete(FullFileName)
               w "File Purged "_FullFileName_" Purged",!
          }
     }
     q status
}

}
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