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A powershell script to help in many scenarios where you need to get older files elsewhere; e.g. archive scenarios (though doesn't include compression) / cases where you have a fileshare with too many historic files to be workable
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function Get-FilesInDirectory { | |
[CmdletBinding()] | |
Param ( | |
[Parameter(Mandatory)] | |
[string]$Path | |
, | |
[Parameter(Mandatory)] | |
[string]$SearchPattern | |
, | |
[Parameter()] | |
[Switch]$Recursive | |
) | |
[System.IO.SearchOption]$SearchOption = @([System.IO.SearchOption]::TopDirectoryOnly,[System.IO.SearchOption]::AllDirectories)[[int]$Recursive.IsPresent] | |
# use enumerate so we get ienumerable instead of array / can start moving files as soon as we get results. | |
[string]$absPath = $ExecutionContext.SessionState.Path.GetUnresolvedProviderPathFromPSPath($Path) # use this instead of resolve-path so things work with UNC paths | |
[System.IO.Directory]::EnumerateFiles($absPath, $SearchPattern, $SearchOption) | |
} | |
Function Skip-RecentFiles { | |
[CmdletBinding()] | |
Param ( | |
[Parameter(Mandatory, ValueFromPipeline)] | |
[System.IO.FileInfo]$InputObject | |
, | |
[Parameter()] | |
[int]$RecentDays = 90 | |
) | |
Begin { | |
$Until = (Get-Date).AddDays(0-$RecentDays).ToUniversalTime() | |
} | |
Process { | |
if ($InputObject.CreationTimeUtc -lt $Until) { | |
$InputObject | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
Function ConvertTo-FolderStructure { | |
[CmdletBinding()] | |
Param ( | |
[Parameter(Mandatory, ValueFromPipeline)] | |
[System.IO.FileInfo]$InputObject | |
, | |
[Parameter()] | |
[string]$ArchiveRootPath = '.' | |
, | |
[Parameter()] | |
[string]$ArchivePathFormat = '{0:yyyy/MM/dd}' | |
, | |
[Parameter()] | |
[string]$DatePropertyName = 'CreationTimeUtc' | |
, | |
[Parameter()] | |
[Switch]$PassThru | |
) | |
Begin { | |
$archiveRoot = $ExecutionContext.SessionState.Path.GetUnresolvedProviderPathFromPSPath($ArchiveRootPath) #note: the archive path may not exist - this caters for that scenario | |
$previousArchivePath = $null # used as a minor optimisation to avoid the overhead of recreating folders if our last folder was the same | |
} | |
Process { | |
$itemArchivePath = Join-Path (Join-Path -Path $archiveRoot -ChildPath ($ArchivePathFormat -f ($InputObject | Select-Object -ExpandProperty $DatePropertyName))) -ChildPath '' | |
if ($itemArchivePath -ne $previousArchivePath) { | |
if (-Not (Test-Path -Path $itemArchivePath -PathType Container)) { | |
New-Item -Path $itemArchivePath -Type Directory -Force | Out-Null | |
} | |
$previousArchivePath = $itemArchivePath | |
} | |
if ($PassThru.IsPresent) { | |
([PSCustomObject]@{ | |
Item = $InputObject | |
ItemArchivePath = $itemArchivePath | |
}) | |
} else { | |
$itemArchivePath | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
Get-FilesInDirectory -Path 'c:\temp\' -SearchPattern *.* | | |
Skip-RecentFiles -RecentDays 600 | | |
ConvertTo-FolderStructure -ArchiveRootPath 'c:\temp\archivedemo' -PassThru | | |
ForEach-Object {Move-Item -Path $_.Item.FullName -Destination $_.ItemArchivePath} | |
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