File::CleanupTask is a CPAN module that the company I work at has opensourced. This is a presentation I gave about it at the London Perl Mongers technical meeting in August 2012.

1. File::CleanupTask
CPAN module from Savio Dimatteo (DARKSMO)
Presentation by Alex Balhatchet (KAORU)

2. A little about me

3. A little about Lokku/Nestoria
We're hiring! http://lokku.com/jobs

5. File::CleanupTask
Configuration based file deletion and backup

6. The Problem
o Lots of logs and junk lying around
o How to delete old files and save disk space?
o How to avoid deleting the wrong things?!

7. The Solution
o Point it at a directory
o Tell it how old files are allowed to be
o Files go away!

8. The Solution
o Configuration driven
o Designed to be run via cron
o Super awesome dry-run and verbose modes

9. Action!
~$ run-file-cleanuptask
--conf ops.tasks
--taskname snapshot
--verbose

10. Basics
[logs]
path = /home/...
max_days = 14
recursive = 1

11. Pattern Matching
[searchindexbuild-reports]
max_days = 7
path = /home/...
pattern = /[/]report.+$/
recursive = 1

12. Pattern Matching
[releases]
max_days = 3
path = /home/...
do_not_delete = /important.txt/
recursive = 1

13. Backup instead of delete
[dropbox-backupraw]
path = /home/...
max_days = 4
backup_path = /home/.../old/
recursive = 1

14. Compress those backups
[dropbox-backupraw]
path = /home/...
max_days = 4
recursive = 1
backup_path = /home/.../old/
backup_gzip = 1

15. Keeping Tidy
[temp]
max_days = 20
path = /home/...
prune_empty_directories = 1
recursive = 1

16. Keeping Tidy
[releases]
max_days = 3
path = /home/...
delete_all_or_nothing_in
= /home/...
recursive = 1

17. Hey, I'm using that!
[geobuilds]
max_days = 5
path = /home/...
keep_if_linked_in = /home/...
recursive = 1

18. CPAN Module
Please try File::CleanupTask out!
https://metacpan.org/module/File::CleanupTask
Forks and pull requests welcome!
https://github.com/darksmo/File-CleanupTask

19. Questions?

20. Thanks!
Reminder: we're hiring! http://lokku.com/jobs