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Thread ID: 98798 2009-04-07 10:29:00 Batch script to delete old files ronyville (10611) Press F1
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762992 2009-04-07 10:29:00 Hi fellas, I got a partition that contains backups of our email archive database. The partition is only 120GB and each backup is around 10GB and happens daily. I normally go into the partition and delete all the older backups manually but was wondering if anyone could help me with a batch script that I can run daily to delete all older backups and keep around 7 latest backups only. The script can be setup to delete all the backups that are older than 7 days. My skills in scripting is fairly poor so any help would be appreciated. The server is windows based.

Thanks
ronyville (10611)
762993 2009-04-07 19:47:00 google (www.google.co.nz) beama (111)
762994 2009-04-08 01:31:00 thanks beama, Google is always my first option but like i said that my scripting skills are not good and i got confused just looking at some of the scripts available but found this (www.techeez.com) and it should do find.

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ronyville (10611)
762995 2009-04-08 20:02:00 glad you found something I didn't think batch files would do it, but vb scripting would.

I've done something similar with vb6, so vb scripting would be a good choice all you would need to do is look at the files properties depend on the result depends on the delete or keep action
beama (111)
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