Ftp – Correct usage of lftp mirror –older-than

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I'm trying to use lftp to download all files from a remote ftp server to the local server in our multi-site enterprise that are older than a certain age and remove them from the remote server.

The command I'm trying is:

lftp -c "set ftp:list-options -a; set ftp:passive-mode false; open ftp://user:pass@host:port; cd '/path/'; mirror --older-than 30s --Remove-source-files --verbose"

The problem is I get the error: 30s: No such file or directory

Likewise with "–older-than now-5min"

Am I reading the man page wrong?

For the curious, here's why: I only want to grab the completed files from the remote server… I want "–older-than 30s" so it skips files that are still being written to.

Best Answer

it should be

--older-than=now-5minutes

from man lftp

For options --newer-than and --older-than you can either specify a file or time specification like that used by at(1) command, e.g. now-7days' orweek ago'. If you specify a file, then modification time of that file will be used.

from man at:

You can also give times like now + count time-units, where the time-units can be minutes, hours, days, or weeks and you can tell at to run the job today by suffixing the time with today and to run the job tomorrow by suffixing the time with tomorrow.

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Linux Bash – Delete Files from Remote FTP Server Older Than X Days

You could send a series of commands to lftp and wrap it in a shell script which calculates the filename of the too old files (see the script below).

TODAY=$(date --iso)                   # Today's date like YYYY-MM-DD
RMDATE=$(date --iso -d '6 days ago')  # TODAY minus X days - too old files
FTPUSER=username
FTPPW=password                        # Better load this from an encrypted file
FTPSERVER=FQDN_or_IP
LFTP=/usr/bin/lftp                    # Path to binary
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)                   # Your archives are here

# CAUTION: mput -E deletes local files after upload
echo -n "Uploading files via FTP... "
$LFTP << EOF
open ${FTPUSER}:${FTPPW}@${FTPSERVER}
cd backups/${HOSTNAME}
mkdir ${TODAY}
cd ${TODAY}
mput -E ${TMPDIR}/*
cd ..
rm -rf ${RMDATE}
bye
EOF
echo "Done."

Make sure nobody execpt root can read this script or put the credentials somewhere else. TMPDIR is the directory where the backups reside locally. Of course you need to edit the obivous parts.

HTH,
PEra

Nginx – FTP/SFTP & Fuse web passthrough without using the web server’s bandwidth

No it is not possible. If you want the client to retrieve it directly they must have a direct link. If you want to hide source then your web server will basically have to act like a proxy.

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