Scheduale delete of files based on date?

[Guest Cyborg]

Hi, I have a folder I wish to only keep 2 days backups in, basically last

nights and the day before. Anything older then delete, is this possible?

[Guest Herb Martin]

Re: Scheduale delete of files based on date?

 

 

"Cyborg" <apollo13@btinternet.com> wrote in message

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> Hi, I have a folder I wish to only keep 2 days backups in, basically last

> nights and the day before. Anything older then delete, is this possible?

 

Yes, but it is harder than it sounds with ONLY built-in tools.

 

Google (group) search the microsoft.public.cmdprompt.admin or similar

groups for solutions.

 

Also consider acquiring a purpose built tool for doing it (or at least

selecting the files).

 

Perl and over non-batch scripting can make such tasks trivial too.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Scheduale delete of files based on date?

 

 

"Cyborg" <apollo13@btinternet.com> wrote in message

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> Hi, I have a folder I wish to only keep 2 days backups in, basically last

> nights and the day before. Anything older then delete, is this possible?

 

You could use xxcopy.exe. It's downloadable from a number

of sites.

@echo off

set cutoff=2

set folder=d:\My Data

c:\tools\xxcopy.exe /rs /db#%cutoff% /yy "%Folder%"

 

Try the batch file on a test directory before moving on

to the real thing.