Sep
06
2015
System admins face more and more ever-growing directories storing auto-generated reports by scripts or scheduled tasks. Same goes to temp directories and nobody bother cleaning them up. But isn’t it our job too?Here are 2 simple scripts that can be run every so often to delete files older than say 30 days for instance in […]
Tags: DOS, Powershell
Dec
15
2012
robocopy is a tool that copies files but more interestingly, it lets you synchronize data from a server (or a NAS) to another Windows server. It is provided with the Windows 2003 Server resource kit tools or natively in Windows 2008 Server and above.Synchronization takes little bandwidth with Robocopy and can be a good way […]
Tags: backup, DOS, network, Windows
Dec
07
2011
You can easily concatenate ascii or binary files with the Windows command prompt using COPY: Where dest is the destination filename
Tags: concatenate, DOS, merge, Windows
Aug
20
2009
Most of us already know cluster features aren’t provided on Windows 2003 server Standard Edition.The thing is you’ve got a shared storage space but you can’t (or don’t want to) afford 2 Windows Enterprise licences just for a file server.There is DFS indeed but one acknowledge it is a pity to replicate data that resides […]
Tags: 2003 server, DOS, Windows