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Moving files older than a certain date, but keeping folder structure
Posted on 2012-12-26
Hi team
I'm in need of a solution to move files older than 3months off the file server (Server 2008 (Not R2)) onto an external hard drive or network share. I'm by no means skilled in creating script commands, but from what I've read most of the solutions would mean removing the folders etc from the source when moving to the destination which isn't what I want to do.
I'm hoping when the files are moved, the file structure will effectively look identical in both locations making it easier to track down these files if required.
Is this something that can be done, or am I expecting too much?
Cheers
I'm in need of a solution to move files older than 3months off the file server (Server 2008 (Not R2)) onto an external hard drive or network share. I'm by no means skilled in creating script commands, but from what I've read most of the solutions would mean removing the folders etc from the source when moving to the destination which isn't what I want to do.
I'm hoping when the files are moved, the file structure will effectively look identical in both locations making it easier to track down these files if required.
Is this something that can be done, or am I expecting too much?
Cheers
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You can use something like Robocopy ot Richcopy to copy all data off to another drive both of these have gui so you can use this without scripting
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ken/archive/2009/06/10/build-4-0-216-has-been-posted-to-the-microsoft-download-center.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ken/archive/2009/06/10/build-4-0-216-has-been-posted-to-the-microsoft-download-center.aspx
Active 6 days ago
This might help:
param ([string] $SourceFolder, [string] $DestFolder, [string] $DDate);
write-host $sourcefolder
write-host $destfolder
write-host $ddate
if (!(Test-Path $SourceFolder))
{ write-host "Source $sourcefolder does not exist!" }
if (!(Test-Path $DestFolder))
{ write-host "Destination $destfolder does not exist!" }
$FileList = Get-ChildItem $SourceFolder -recurse
ForEach ($FileObj in $FileList) {
if ($fileobj.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-$Ddate))
{
write-host "$FileName = $FileObj.Name"
write-host "$fullpath = $FileObj.FullName"
$FileName = $FileObj.Name
$fullpath = $FileObj.FullName
write-host "$copypath = [regex]::Replace($Fullpath,'$SourceFolder','');"
$copypath = [regex]::Replace("$fullpath", "$SourceFolder",'');
$destpath = $DestFolder + $copypath
Copy-Item "$fullpath" "$destpath"
}
}
Active 6 days ago
I forgot to add usage :
script name (whatever you save it as .ps1)
script.ps1 -sourcefolder c:\sourcefolder -destfolder c:\destfolder -ddate40
That should do it.
script name (whatever you save it as .ps1)
script.ps1 -sourcefolder c:\sourcefolder -destfolder c:\destfolder -ddate40
That should do it.
Active 6 days ago
It seems I had an error in the script I posted: updating below-
Give it a go ...
If you need any extra functionality like not copying files already present etc let me know.
param ([string] $SourceFolder, [string] $DestFolder, [string] $DDate);
if ($SourceFolder -eq "" -or $DestFolder -eq "" -or $DDate -eq "")
{
write-host "
`t You failed to specify correct syntax
`n
`t Usage: script.ps1 -sourcefolder c:\folder -destfolder c:\folder2 -ddate 40
" -fore red
}
else
{
if (!(Test-Path $SourceFolder))
{ write-host "Source $sourcefolder does not exist!" }
if (!(Test-Path $DestFolder))
{ write-host "Destination $destfolder does not exist!" }
$FileList = Get-ChildItem $SourceFolder -recurse
ForEach ($FileObj in $FileList) {
if ($fileobj.LastWriteTime -lt (Get-Date).AddDays(-$Ddate))
{
$FileName = $FileObj.Name
$fullpath = $FileObj.FullName
$copypath = ($fullpath -replace [regex]::Escape($SourceFolder), '')
$destpath = $DestFolder + $copypath
Copy-Item $fullpath $destpath
}
}
}
Give it a go ...
If you need any extra functionality like not copying files already present etc let me know.
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