Hello,

I am wondering of one of you scripting wizards could help me with a cleanup
script that delete all folders older than # days in the root of d:\.

I am making backups of my live virtual servers and do not have enough room
to house more than one copy at a time.

The backups create folders that show the date and time so I have to make
sure it deletes all in that partition.

Thanks.

Hi,

hope this one satisfies your needs...

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Dirk,

Thank you so much. I will give it a try and let you know.

Thanks again for the quick response.

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Hey Dirk,

I may need to refine what the script is doing how about just deleting
d:\vsbackups after 1 day. Thanks

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Hi,

let's have a look what comes out of the magic wand ;-)

Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
idays = 1
sFolder = "d:\vsbackups"

Set oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder(sFolder)
If  DateDiff("d", oFolder.DateCreated, Now()) > idays Then
   WScript.Echo "folder """ & oFolder.Name & """will be deleted."
'   oFolder.delete
End If


Dirk

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As always: there are a hundred different ways to do the same thing. Here is a batch file I use to cleanup old temp and log files from servers.  It does recurse subdirectories, but as I didn't have a need to delete empty folders I didn't implement, if you need that functionality the vbscript may be a better fit.

Make a batch file called purge_old_files.bat and paste in the following code.  Just modify the 'list of directories to clean' section with your desired directories, one per line following the existing pattern.

Code: --------------------     @echo off
  SET tempX=dirs.tmp.txt
  IF EXIST %tempX% del %tempX%

  echo "c:\windows\system32\logfiles" >> %tempX%
  echo "D:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\server.log" >> %tempX%
  echo "D:\Program Files\Trend Micro\Security Server\PCCSRV\Log" >> %tempX%

  IF "%~1"=="" (GOTO ERROR) else SET DAYS=%1
  echo.
  echo Deleting the following files %DAYS% days old or older.
  echo.
  FOR /F "delims=," %%i IN (%tempX%) DO forfiles -p %%i -s -m *.* -d -%DAYS% -c "Cmd /C echo @Path & del @Path"
  GOTO CLEANUP

  echo You used the utility incorrectly.
  echo Usage: %0 DAYS
  echo All files older than DAYS days old will be deleted from the following directories (and subdirectories.)
  echo.
  FOR /F "delims=," %%i IN (%tempX%) DO echo %%i

  IF EXIST %tempX% del %tempX%
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