Gdrive: Delete older files

[nvsoares]

Hi.
Is it possible to allow you to delete the created / changed files for more than n days?
It seems to me that it was more valuable for the application, as it allowed a more careful management of the files.

[asmith20002]

Hello,

I'd also like this. It helps managing backup files.

[michaelmcmillan]

Here's a script I threw together that uploads a file and deletes all files which are older than 100 days in a given directory. It assumes that you have the gdrive executable in the same directory as the script.

````bash

!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e;

if [ $# -le 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: ./backup.sh [platform] [gdrive folder id] [file to backup]";
exit 1;
fi

Arguments

directory=dirname "$0"
gdrive=$directory/gdrive-$1
backup_directory_id=$2
file_to_backup=$3

Backs up the current file

$gdrive upload --parent $backup_directory_id $file_to_backup;

hundred_days_ago=python -c 'from datetime import datetime as dt, timedelta as delta; print((dt.now() - delta(days=100)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))';
expired_backups=$gdrive list -m 1000 --query " ('$backup_directory_id' in parents) and trashed = false and modifiedTime < '$hundred_days_ago'" --order "modifiedTime asc" --no-header | cut -d ' ' -f1;

Deletes backups that are more than 100 days old.

while read -r backup_id; do
echo Deleting $backup_id;
$gdrive delete $backup_id;
done <<< "$expired_backups"
````

Example usage:
./backup.sh linux-x64 0BwFfewfewwf-ofewfwF2WHM example.db

[sunnmas]

why phyton?!!

date --date="-10 days" +%Y-%m-%d

[michaelmcmillan]

Because it is a script, and it works just fine, and I’m giving it away for free. That’s why?!!

[rafatriolo]

@michaelmcmillan Thank you very much for your script! However I´ve made some changes to my needs, Here bellow, and it is working:

!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e;

if [ $# -le 2 ]

then

#echo "Usage: ./backup.sh [gdrive folder id] [file to backup]";
#exit 1;

fi

Arguments

directory=dirname "$0"

gdrive=$directory

backup_directory_id=$2
file_to_backup=$1

Backs up the current file

gdrive sync upload $file_to_backup $backup_directory_id;

hundred_days_ago=python3 -c 'from datetime import datetime as dt, timedelta as delta; print((dt.now() - delta(days=1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d"))';
expired_backups=gdrive list -m 1000 --query " ('$backup_directory_id' in parents) and trashed = false and modifiedTime < '$hundred_days_ago'" --order "modifiedTime asc" --no-header | cut -d ' ' -f1;

Deletes backups that are more than 100 days old.

while read -r backup_id; do
echo Deleting $backup_id;
gdrive delete $backup_id;
done <<< "$expired_backups"

I´ve comment the first lines because I don´t need instructions(kkkkkk), and since I want to delete always the last file that I´ve previous uploded. I hope this help someone.

To use you simple have to do ./backup.sh folder gdrive-folder-id