# CWDB Archive

<div class="page group" id="bkmrk-dns-ip-address-loc-o"><div class="level1"><div class="table sectionedit2"><table class="inline"><thead><tr class="row0"><th class="col0"><abbr title="Domain Name System">DNS</abbr></th><th class="col1">IP Address</th><th class="col2">Loc</th><th class="col3"><abbr title="Operating System">OS</abbr></th><th class="col4">Ver</th><th class="col5">Services</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="row1"><td class="col0">cwdb-archive</td><td class="col1">172.16.1.129</td><td class="col2">Internal VM</td><td class="col3">SLES</td><td class="col4">12</td><td class="col5">null</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div></div>## Installation

### SLE Modules

<div class="page group" id="bkmrk-software-development"><div class="level3">- <div class="li">Software Development Kit</div>
- <div class="li">Web and Scripting</div>

</div></div>### Users

<div class="page group" id="bkmrk-archive"><div class="level3">- <div class="li">archive</div>

</div></div>## Cron Jobs

### Archive

Runs the cleanup script for old backups. Currently only keeping a weeks worth of backups (including WAL archives).

```
15 4 * * * /home/archive/bin/clean_old_backups.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
```

## CWDB Backups

### Locations

<div class="page group" id="bkmrk-%2Fhome%2Farchive%2Fcwdb%C2%A0i"><div class="level3">- <div class="li">`/home/archive/cwdb` is the main directory</div>
- <div class="li">`/home/archive/cwdb/wal` directory holds the WAL archives</div>
- <div class="li">`/home/archive/cwdb/data` has a dated directory for each date a full binary backup has been done</div>

</div></div>### Backup Pruning

Currently we keep only a week of backups. This script it run every night and delete the oldest backup.

<div class="page group" id="bkmrk-clean_old_backups.sh"><div class="level3"><dl class="code"><dt>[clean\_old\_backups.sh](https://kb.mlc-wels.edu/_export/code/disaster/servers/cwdb-archive?codeblock=1 "Download Snippet")</dt><dd>```
#!/bin/bash
 
DATA_BACKUP_DIR=/home/archive/cwdb/data/*
WAL_ARCHIVE_DIR=/home/archive/cwdb/wal/*
 
find /home/archive/cwdb/data/*  -maxdepth 0  -type d -mtime +6 -exec rm -rf {} \;
find /home/archive/cwdb/wal/* -maxdepth 0 -mtime +6 -delete
```

</dd></dl></div></div>