We would like to do some file Archiving on a server?

We are using Windows 2003 & 2008.

We could do that, I was seeing about getting it done without all that leg work.

We want to move the data, so it is out of the "Live" share.

I know, and I don't mind doing the work, it's just that I have to write this up so a monkey can read it and understand it as they are letting me go in June in lieu of outsourcing.  This is going to be a *itch, better brush up on my powershell, that;s going to be the best way.

Thanks All.

I would take a look at vice versa to do this. It is not a free software but it is pretty cheap overall. I actually used this in a previous company i worked for to do a very similar thing as you.

This is basically like robocopy on steroids with many more options, logging, etc. It also has a nice scheduler built in so that you can set it and forget it.

http://www.tgrmn.com/

Well, I've seen many companies go through outsourcing over the years.  Incidentally, if you've got the you savings buffer and health care benefits (e.g. COBRA or spouse) to not need to find another job immediately, you can use that as an opportunity to provide consulting services back to the company -- at a vastly higher rate (I'd start at a minimum of $150/hour, higher if you have years of experience in their exact needs).  This allows several benefits:  You get to keep working, you get to work less (say, 20 hours a week or so), and they get to take you salary off of the permanent payroll costs.  I know of some "consultants" who were outsourced that continued to work for YEARS after the transition (one of them was there over 15 years when I last spoke to him), and they ended up working about 1/2 the time they worked previously for the same pay.  Because they weren't "full time employees", it didn't count as a FTE cost to the manager of the department.  Sounds strange, but it can be a great benefit at the same time.

I can hope.

Hey!

Actually you gave me a great idea for one of my clients, so here's the the script I sticked together from some of my scripts and a bit of Google and Technet.
It works for me (!not thoroughly tested! so no guaranties:) ).

It copies the folder structure and moves the files older (last accessed) than whatever you like in days.
And writes all moved files in a .csv.
It's probably not "the top 100 ps scripts" but, it's a start if you're going to try on your own.

Set-StrictMode -Version Latest
$From="C:\from"
$To="C:\to"
$DaysAgo="10"
$LastAccess =(get-date).AddDays(-$DaysAgo)
get-childitem $From -include *.* -recurse | ? {
	!$_.PsIsContainer -and $_.LastAccessTime -le “$LastAccess”
} | % {
	$newpath = join-path $To $_.DirectoryName.SubString($From.length)
	New-Item $newpath -type directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
	Move-Item $_.FullName -destination $newpath
	write-host "File Was Last Accessed" $_.LastAccessTime
	$outputfilename = ( "c:\"+$DaysAgo+"dayReport.csv") 
	$_ |format-table -property Fullname |out-file $outputfilename -append 
}

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Best regards to all, Jernej