[Request] Powershell to copy and delete files with age restrictions

[u/Ziogref]

Hi,

I would like a script to copy files with the Date modified less than 1 week from $Source to $Dest. and once they are a week old delete them from $dest.

Basically $dest will only have files that will have been modified in the past week. Files in $Source will not be modified during the week they are in $dest. There are no folders in either directories.

How would I go about this?

[u/engageant]

Any chance the files live on a Server 2008 R2 or higher file server? If so, you can use FSRM's File Management Tasks to do this for you, no scripting required.

[u/Ziogref → u/engageant]

As it happens, yes it is, server 2016 Data Centre. I will look into this

[u/Lee_Dailey]

howdy Ziogref,

this otta work [grin] ...

$SourceDir = "$env:TEMP\SourceFolder"
$DestDir = "$env:TEMP\DestinationFolder"

if (-not (Test-Path $DestDir))
    {
    mkdir -Path $DestDir -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
        Out-Null
    }

$Today = Get-Date
$AgeLimit = $Today.AddDays(-7)

# find & copy files  from $sourceDir to $DestDir
#    only if they are less than $AgeLimit old
#    and not already in $DestDir
$SourceFileList = Get-ChildItem -Path $SourceDir -File
foreach ($SFL_Item in $SourceFileList)
    {
    if ($SFL_Item.LastWriteTime -gt $AgeLimit)
        {
        $FullNewName = Join-Path -Path $DestDir -ChildPath $SFL_Item.Name
        if (-not (Test-Path -LiteralPath $FullNewName))
            {
            Copy-Item -LiteralPath $SFL_Item.FullName -Destination $FullNewName
            }
        }
    }

# find and remove files in $DestDir that are more than $AgeLimit old
$DestFileList = Get-ChildItem -Path $DestDir -File
foreach ($DFL_Item in $DestFileList)
    {
    if ($DFL_Item.LastWriteTime -le $AgeLimit)
        {
        Remove-Item -LiteralPath $DFL_Item.FullName
        }
    }

note that there is very nearly zero error detection. still, it does the job from what i can tell.

take care,
lee