Now I updated my code and it works! :) Thanks! I found another way to delete files that are older than x days, however, something strange came up... I don't know why it happened, but if I use the second delete section like this:

####
#### Check for expired backups
####

print $backup_daily_subdir."\n";
die unless chdir "$backup_daily_subdir";
die unless opendir DIR, ".";
foreach $file (grep {-f && (31 < -M)} readdir DIR) {
        unlink $file;
}
closedir DIR;

print $backup_weekly_subdir."\n";
die unless chdir "$backup_weekly_subdir";
die unless opendir DR, ".";
foreach $files (grep {-f && (365 < -M)} readdir DR) {
        unlink $files;
}
closedir DR;

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I get this error:

~/perl/sandbox]$ ./newtime.pl
Name "main::files" used only once: possible typo at ./newtime.pl line 
+59.
Name "main::isdst" used only once: possible typo at ./newtime.pl line 
+16.
Name "main::yday" used only once: possible typo at ./newtime.pl line 1
+6.
The file for this hour already exists!
Died at ./newtime.pl line 57.

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Line 57 is -> die unless chdir "$backup_weekly_subdir";

I got rid of the chdir part to make it work and used only opendir, but why was this happening with chdir(i mean the die on line 57)? "./backup/weekly" was missing so you were right jethro, but I created it, and it was there, I even printed the variables and tried an ls command on it and it was working... I'm clueless, is this safe what I'm doing, or I can wipe something out that I don't want?

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