flow-expire(1)flow-expire(1)NAMEflow-expire — Manage storage of flow file archives by expiring old
data.
SYNOPSISflow-expire [-h] [-d debug_level] [-e expire_count] [-E expire_size]
-w workdir
DESCRIPTION
The flow-expire utility will remove the oldest flow files in a direc‐
tory based on either a count of files or space utilization. The direc‐
tory is recursively searched for flow files. Files that do not have a
flow-tools signature will be ignored. The internal timestamp is used
so backups or copies of the flow files that do not retain the original
timestamp will not impact the operation of flow-expire. flow-expire is
typically used to manage storage in a distributed environment where
flows are collected on a different server than they are archived.
OPTIONS-d debug_level
Enable debugging.
-e expire_count
Retain the maximum number of files so that the total file
count is less than expire_count.
-E expire_size
Retain the maximum number of files so that the total storage
is less than expire_size. The letters b,K,M,G can be used as
multipliers, ie 16 Megabytes is 16M.
-h Display help.
-w workdir
Work in workdir.
EXAMPLES
Remove the oldest flow files in /flows/krc4 until the total storage is
less then 2 Gigabytes.
flow-expire-E2Gig -w /flows/krc4
Remove the oldest flow files in /flows/krc4 until the total number of
files is less then 100.
flow-expire-e100 -w /flows/krc4
BUGS
Empty directories are not removed.
AUTHOR
Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net
SEE ALSOflow-tools(1)flow-expire(1)
