Tag: Clean-up
Delage32 - A better way to cleanup
by admin on Oct.18, 2007, under Software, Systems
So we have a couple of down and dirty backup servers that run backup scripts and a free backup program called SyncBack. These methods of backups are cheap (free), easy and fast. One problem you run into is when replicating data to multiple locations that have different retention times you need a way to clean-up old files.
We are talking about over 1TB of backed up data and some individual files that are over 100GBs in size. What we have done in the past is use batch files to run clean-up jobs. Robocopy is used to move aged files from backup locations to another location and then the del command is used to empty the directory. The problem with this method is it takes quite some time to move the files and takes additional space as a queue before deletion. The del command doesn’t have age switches built in.
I found a freeware product called delage32 that adds the age functionality into the mix. Now instead of my cleanup scripts moving the old files to a new directory and then del everything in that clean-up directory it just deletes files with a certain age out of the backup directories. This is much more efficient.
