DUMP FILES UNABLE TO DELETE IN LINUX

Question

Hi
Our company currently runs the databases on RAC (Oracle 11gR2). We generally take the backup of SCHEMAS everyday using the datapump. My issues here is I am unable to delete the dump files older that 3 days using the below script
00 14 * * * find /nbds2/orabkp/*.dmp.gz -mtime +3 -exec rm -f {} \;
but I am able to delete the files using the below command
rm -f abcb.dmp.gz . I verified the file permissions etc on the dump file that is generated everything looks fine.
Even I tried using the below script
#################cut here - rmdumpfiles #############
#!/bin/bash
echo "starting at `date`"
for i in `find /nbds2/orabkp -mtime +3 -name "*.dmp.gz" `
do
echo "deleting $i "
rm -f $i
done
echo "done at `date` "
chmod 750 rmdumpfiles
Crontab entry:
00 14 * * * /home/oracle/rmdumpfiles >> /home/oracle/rmdump.log
But the files didn't get deleted and below is the information I got from the log file
"starting at Mon Feb 18 17:59:01 PST 2013
done at Mon Feb 18 17:59:01 PST 2013"
Can someone help me please
Thank you
Karren

Answer 1

Hi Dude,
Thank you very much for your quick response. Actually I had to delete a lot of files manually due to storage issue( I am left with only the dump files from of 17,18,19). But my results are weird. I am not able to find the issue. Can you help me
stat /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_17_2013.dmp.gz
File: `/nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_17_2013.dmp.gz'
Size: 7013910756 Blocks: 13753000 IO Block: 65536 regular file
Device: 16h/22d Inode: 21604 Links: 1
Access: (0640/-rw-r-----) Uid: ( 1001/ oracle) Gid: ( 1001/oinstall)
Access: 2013-02-17 18:00:04.000000000 -0800
Modify: 2013-02-17 18:21:11.000000000 -0800
Change: 2013-02-17 18:26:41.988556000 -0800
find /nbds2/orabkp/* -iname "*.dmp.gz" -mtime +3
Ans: None
find /nbds2/orabkp/* -iname "*.dmp.gz" -mtime +2
Ans: None
find /nbds2/orabkp/* -iname "*.dmp.gz" -mtime +1
Ans: /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_17_2013.dmp.gz
ls -l /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_*
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7013910756 Feb 17 18:21 /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_17_2013.dmp.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle asmadmin 75805 Feb 17 18:21 /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_17_2013.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle asmadmin 75805 Feb 18 18:21 /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_18_2013.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 7014081297 Feb 19 18:20 /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_19_2013.dmp.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle asmadmin 75805 Feb 19 18:20 /nbds2/orabkp/FULL_EXP_FSDEV_expdp_Feb_19_2013.log
date
Ans: Wed Feb 20 09:27:02 PST 2013
Now I am able to delete the files thank you very much for your help.This is the first time I am having this issue I am not sure the reason behind it "date" and "mtime" are conflicting and that is causing the issue. Can you please enlighten me regarding this
Edited by: 988802 on Feb 20, 2013 9:42 AM
Edited by: 988802 on Feb 20, 2013 10:04 AM