Community Discussion: Backup Rotation Settings in phpMyBackupPro

Hi everyone,

I’m currently using phpMyBackupPro for scheduled backups and it’s working great. However, I’m trying to limit the number of stored backups (e.g. only keep the last 5). Is there a built-in setting for this or do I need to use a custom script?

There’s no direct setting inside the UI, but you can use a small shell script or PHP snippet to delete older backups after each new one is created.

For example:

ls -tp /backups | grep -v '/$' | tail -n +6 | xargs -I {} rm -- /backups/{}

This keeps the 5 newest files in the directory and removes the rest.

I added a PHP version to cron.php that scans the backup folder and deletes files older than 7 days. Works well with FTP too if mounted.

Thanks all. I wrapped this into a post-backup hook so it cleans up after every successful job. Maybe this could be added as an official feature someday.