diff --git a/src/scripts/backupcleaner b/src/scripts/backupcleaner
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# Shell script to clean up backups of a Solr Lucene collection.
+
+orig_dir=$(pwd)
+cd ${0%/*}/..
+solr_root=$(pwd)
+cd ${orig_dir}
+
+unset days num data_dir user verbose
+. ${solr_root}/bin/scripts-util
+
+# set up variables
+prog=${0##*/}
+log=${solr_root}/logs/${prog}.log
+
+# define usage string
+USAGE="\
+usage: $prog -D <days> | -N <num> [-d dir] [-u username] [-v]
+       -D <days>   cleanup backups more than <days> days old
+       -N <num>    keep the most most recent <num> number of backups and
+                   cleanup up the remaining ones that are not being pulled
+       -d          specify directory holding index data
+       -u          specify user to sudo to before running script
+       -v          increase verbosity
+"
+
+# parse args
+while getopts D:N:d:u:v OPTION
+do
+    case $OPTION in
+    D)
+        days="$OPTARG"
+        ;;
+    N)
+        num="$OPTARG"
+        ;;
+    d)
+        data_dir="$OPTARG"
+        ;;
+    u)
+        user="$OPTARG"
+        ;;
+    v)
+        verbose="v"
+        ;;
+    *)
+        echo "$USAGE"
+        exit 1
+    esac
+done
+
+if [[ -z ${days} && -z ${num} ]]
+then
+    echo "$USAGE"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+fixUser "$@"
+
+# user default value for data_dir if not specified
+# relative path starts at ${solr_root}
+if [[ -z ${data_dir} ]]
+then
+    data_dir=${solr_root}/data
+elif [[ "`echo ${data_dir}|cut -c1`" != "/" ]]
+then
+    data_dir=${solr_root}/${data_dir}
+fi
+
+function remove
+{
+    logMessage removing backup $1
+    /bin/rm -rf $1
+}
+
+start=`date +"%s"`
+
+logMessage started by $oldwhoami
+logMessage command: $0 $@
+
+# trap control-c
+trap 'echo "caught INT/TERM, exiting now but partial cleanup may have already occured";logExit aborted 13' INT TERM
+
+if [[ -n ${days} ]]
+then
+    logMessage cleaning up backups more than ${days} days old
+    for i in `find ${data_dir} -name "backup.*" -maxdepth 1 -mtime +${days} -print`
+    do
+        remove $i
+    done
+elif [[ -n ${num} ]]
+then
+    logMessage cleaning up all backups except for the most recent ${num} ones
+    unset backups count
+    backups=`ls -cd ${data_dir}/backup.* 2>/dev/null`
+    if [[ $? == 0 ]]
+    then
+        count=`echo $backups|wc -w`
+        startpos=`expr $num + 1`
+        if [[ $count -gt $num ]]
+        then
+            for i in `echo $backups|cut -f${startpos}- -d" "`
+            do
+	        remove $i
+	    done
+        fi
+    fi
+fi
+
+logExit ended 0
+
+
diff --git a/src/scripts/scripts-util b/src/scripts/scripts-util
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+# Shell script to disable rsyncd
+
+export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
+
+# set up variables
+prog=${0##*/}
+
+# source the config file if present
+confFile=${solr_root}/conf/scripts.conf
+if [[ -f $confFile ]]
+then
+    . $confFile
+fi
+
+function fixUser
+{
+# set user to $(whoami) if not specified
+    if [[ -z ${user} ]]
+    then
+        user=$(whoami)
+    fi
+
+# sudo
+    if [[ $(whoami) != ${user} ]]
+    then
+        sudo -u ${user} $0 "$@"
+        exit $?
+    fi
+
+    oldwhoami=$(who -m | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e's/^.*!//')
+
+    if [[ "${oldwhoami}" == "" ]]
+    then
+        oldwhoami=`ps h -Hfp $(pgrep -g0 ${0##*/}) | tail -1|cut -f1 -d" "`
+    fi
+}
+
+function timeStamp
+{
+    date +'%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'
+}
+
+function logMessage
+{
+    echo $(timeStamp) $@>>$log
+    if [[ -n ${verbose} ]]
+    then
+	echo $@
+    fi
+}
+
+function logExit
+{
+    end=`date +"%s"`
+    diff=`expr $end - $start`
+    echo "$(timeStamp) $1 (elapsed time: $diff sec)">>$log
+    exit $2
+}
+
+# create logs directory if not there
+if [[ ! -d ${solr_root}/logs ]]
+then
+    mkdir ${solr_root}/logs
+fi
+