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    # Reap the backups
    tidy { "old mysql backups":
        path => "/var/backups/mysqldumps/",
        recurse => inf,
        type => mtime,
        # Older than one week
        age => "1w",
    }

ec2-www1# stat /var/backups/mysqldumps/mysqldump.2009Mar18.gz
  File: `/var/backups/mysqldumps/mysqldump.2009Mar18.gz'
  Size: 32573748        Blocks: 63696      IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 801h/2049d      Inode: 118321      Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2009-05-06 10:10:22.000000000 +0000
Modify: 2009-03-18 22:41:30.000000000 +0000
Change: 2009-03-18 22:43:06.000000000 +0000