Cleanup Failed Backups (cleanback) 🚮⚡

Repository: https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/cleanup-failed-backups

cleanback validates and (optionally) cleans up failed Docker backup directories.
It scans backup folders under /Backups, uses :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0} to validate each subdirectory, and lets you delete the ones that fail validation.

Validation runs in parallel for performance; deletions are controlled and can be interactive or fully automatic.

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✨ Highlights

• Parallel validation of backup subdirectories
• Uses dirval (directory-validator) via CLI
• Interactive or non-interactive deletion flow (--yes)
• Supports validating a single backup ID or all backups
• Clean Python package with pyproject.toml
• Unit + Docker-based E2E tests

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📦 Installation

Via pip (recommended)

pip install cleanback

This installs:

• the cleanback CLI
• dirval as a dependency (declared in pyproject.toml)

Editable install (for development)

git clone https://github.com/kevinveenbirkenbach/cleanup-failed-backups
cd cleanup-failed-backups
pip install -e .

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🔧 Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Access to the /Backups directory tree
• dirval (installed automatically via pip dependency)

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🚀 Usage

CLI entrypoint

After installation, the command is:

cleanback

Validate a single backup ID

cleanback --id <ID>

Validates directories under:

/Backups/<ID>/backup-docker-to-local/*

Validate all backups

cleanback --all

Scans:

/Backups/*/backup-docker-to-local/*

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Common options

Option	Description
--dirval-cmd <cmd>	Path or name of dirval executable (default: dirval)
--workers <n>	Parallel workers (default: CPU count, min 2)
--timeout <sec>	Per-directory validation timeout (float supported, default: 300.0)
--yes	Non-interactive mode: delete failures automatically

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Examples

# Validate a single backup and prompt on failures
cleanback --id 2024-09-01T12-00-00

# Validate everything with 8 workers and auto-delete failures
cleanback --all --workers 8 --yes

# Use a custom dirval binary and short timeout
cleanback --all --dirval-cmd /usr/local/bin/dirval --timeout 5.0

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🧪 Tests

Run all tests

make test

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🔒 Safety & Design Notes

• No host filesystem is modified during tests (E2E tests run exclusively inside Docker)
• Deletions are explicitly confirmed unless --yes is used
• Timeouts are treated as validation failures
• Validation and deletion phases are clearly separated

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🪪 License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. See the LICENSE file for details.

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👤 Author

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach 🌐 https://www.veen.world 📧 kevin@veen.world