How many of us, experienced in systems administration, usually have to
go through the annoying process of digging in folders all over the servers in order to
clean the temporary and log files ?
Tired of this and profiting some other related needs such as
performing backups and
erasing folders with thousands of files, I decided to create a small tool to automate the process.
Here I share with you MyZipOldFiles, a
simple and user-friendly tool based on .NET (C#).
What I use to do in all the systems which I am responsible for is to
create a batchfile having a line for each file/folder that I want to copy/delete and add that file to the
Windows tasks scheduler before having the system global backup copy been done.
Having this tool you will be able to :
- Have a zipped file copy of (x days period) unchanged files archived in some folders, and automatically remove these (optional);
- Only delete files which haven’t been changed for a predefined time period, even if you do not want the zipped file security copy.
You can download the tool
right here .
In the
readme.txt file you will find all the instructions.
Please, do not hesitate to
comment and/or send your
suggestions.