User data cleanup script

[Gunni]

Hey,

Just wanted to share a simple cleanup script I made, it moves user data 7 days after file modification time to the backup dir.

And 7 days after that it removes the backup of that data.

My script is locked ALL the way down using systemd security features, so if your data location is different, make sure you update the paths in both the script and the service.

$ systemd-analyze security sftpgo-cleanup.service
→ Overall exposure level for sftpgo-cleanup.service: 0.3 SAFE 😀

https://gist.github.com/Gunni/04d0d63194247e466964e15df208b210

[drakkan]

Thanks for sharing! While this approach works well with the local filesystem, it may be challenging to apply it to cloud storage backends.

SFTPGo includes built-in support for data retention rules, and starting with version 2.7.20250726 of our Enterprise edition (not open-source), we’ve added the ability to archive files to a virtual folder instead of simply deleting them.
This makes it possible to achieve the same goal (and more) without relying on external scripts, and it works with any supported storage backend.