`find` command not available in web host, how to implement a delete based on modification time using other commands?

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I'm creating a simple datebase backup solution for a client using web hosting at DataFlame.

The web hosting account provides access to cron but not a shell.

I have a database backup script creating regular backups and I want to automatically remove those more than N days old.

I attempted to use

find -v $backup_dir -mtime +$keep_days -name "*db.tar.gz" -delete

however the user executing the script does not have permission to run find.

Can you suggest how to implement this without using the find command?

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