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cranki · 11-29-2007, 04:00 PM

Is there a (ftp?-)program that allows me to search my webserver for rarely used files? So I may delete old gallery htmls which haven't been accessed in three years for example...

zagi · 11-29-2007, 06:06 PM

I'm not sure about an FTP server but a unix command will do the trick.

So long as your file system is not mounted with "noatime" then you can use:

stat filename.ext

This will show you something like:

stat package.xml
File: `package.xml'
Size: 11656 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 7225548 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2007-10-23 13:36:51.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2007-09-21 12:11:54.000000000 -0400
Change: 2007-10-23 13:36:51.000000000 -0400

From which you can use the Access time to determine last time of access

rvn · 11-30-2007, 01:09 AM

If you have a dedicated server, use sFTP Drive - it can connect your server as a regular disk in Windows. It supports all operations - search, copy, delete, etc. Then just search by access date (sFTP drive caches remote directories, so access will be very fast) and delete rarely used.

11-29-2007, 04:00 PM	#1
cranki Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Café del Mar Posts: 5,162	Clean Webserver from rarely used files? Is there a (ftp?-)program that allows me to search my webserver for rarely used files? So I may delete old gallery htmls which haven't been accessed in three years for example...

11-29-2007, 06:06 PM	#2
zagi Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,238	I'm not sure about an FTP server but a unix command will do the trick. So long as your file system is not mounted with "noatime" then you can use: stat filename.ext This will show you something like: stat package.xml File: `package.xml' Size: 11656 Blocks: 24 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 7225548 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-10-23 13:36:51.000000000 -0400 Modify: 2007-09-21 12:11:54.000000000 -0400 Change: 2007-10-23 13:36:51.000000000 -0400 From which you can use the Access time to determine last time of access __________________ Managed US/NL Hosting [ [Reality Check Network ] Dell XEON Servers + 1/2/3 TB Packages ICQ: 4-930-562

11-30-2007, 01:09 AM	#3
rvn Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Ukraine/USA Posts: 176	If you have a dedicated server, use sFTP Drive - it can connect your server as a regular disk in Windows. It supports all operations - search, copy, delete, etc. Then just search by access date (sFTP drive caches remote directories, so access will be very fast) and delete rarely used. __________________ These things are good