How to remove all Ittrium backup files

Use ssh to connect to the server perform the following steps.

1. Change the directory to /var directory using the following command.

cd /var

2. Execute the following command to list all of the files you plan to delete.

find ittrium -name \*.*~

3. Once you have verified that the files listed above are all backup files that you want to delete, you can execute the following command.

find ittrium -name \*.*~ | xargs rm

Note that this command will only remove files with the standard backup extension that ends with the tilde (~) character. Directories with the tilde extension will not be removed.

NOTE NOTE: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL USING THIS COMMAND SINCE YOU COULD EASILY DELETE THE WRONG FILES OR EVEN ALL FILES IF YOUR SYNTAX IS INCORRECT.