# Delete backup older than x days

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/delete-backup-older-than-x-days/18584>\
**Category:** Percona Backup for MongoDB\
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**Created:** [November 16, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/delete-backup-older-than-x-days/18584 "2022-11-16T07:05:01Z")\
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Hello,

Any suggestions to delete backups older than X days. I used below command but didn’t work ( it didn’t delete any).

[mongod@ip-xxxx pbm]$ pbm delete-backup -f --older-than $(date -d ‘-5 days’ +%Y-%m-%d);  
Waiting for delete to be done …[done]  
Backup snapshots:  
2022-10-22T01:02:04Z [complete: 2022-10-22T23:00:52Z]  
2022-11-05T01:02:04Z [complete: 2022-11-05T17:24:38Z]  
2022-11-12T01:02:04Z [complete: 2022-11-12T23:25:56Z]

PITR :  
2022-10-22T23:00:53Z - 2022-10-23T18:00:13Z  
2022-11-05T17:24:39Z - 2022-11-06T18:00:11Z  
2022-11-12T23:25:57Z - 2022-11-13T18:00:08Z

is there a automation script/command to delete the older backups by keeping 2 set of recent backups.