How to select a daterange of files and archive them?

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We have 4 servers (Windows 2003 R2), each with a log-directory with thousands of log-files. I have written a log-viewer that collect log-files within a date range and show them in a grid. But this is rather slow as the number of log-files grow fast.

If I could schedule to move all files older than N days to an zip-archive I think the logviewer should be much faster. I'm not good at write bat-files. Any suggestions ?

It is custom logs in textfiles for a server application written by our team. It as timestamp and a message, maybe an exception string etc. — berocoder, Nov 01 '09 at 17:45

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '09 at 07:31

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You should be able to use forfiles:

forfiles /m *.log /c <zip up here> /d -N

The /d switch tells forfiles to only consider files older than N days. Of course, you need to replace N with a nice number.

answered Oct 29 '09 at 07:31

Joey

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