Scheduled backup - how to auto delete old backups (using Nero backup)

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news.microsoft.com

Hi there,

Shared files for a peer to peer network are on a drive. One computer on the
network uses Nero Backup scheduler software to make a backup of the network
drive each night, and copy it to its own C drive.

However, each time a full backup is completed, there seems no way of
removing the old backup?

Any suggestions on how I could do this, or is anyone familiar with this
software on how this can be done?

Thanks
 
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Pegasus \(MVP\)

news.microsoft.com said:
Hi there,

Shared files for a peer to peer network are on a drive. One computer on the
network uses Nero Backup scheduler software to make a backup of the network
drive each night, and copy it to its own C drive.

However, each time a full backup is completed, there seems no way of
removing the old backup?

Any suggestions on how I could do this, or is anyone familiar with this
software on how this can be done?

Thanks

Does the Nero backup scheduler create a task under the Task
Scheduler? If so then you can grab this task's command line
from the Task Scheduler, place it into a batch file, add a "delete"
command and schedule this batch file instead.

Post again if you need more detailed instructions.
 
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news.microsoft.com

Does the Nero backup scheduler create a task under the Task
Scheduler? If so then you can grab this task's command line
from the Task Scheduler, place it into a batch file, add a "delete"
command and schedule this batch file instead.

Post again if you need more detailed instructions.

Looking in the Task scheduler I only have a Symantec thing (live update
check) and an ISP signup reminder (scheduled to run again - NEVER).

So it does not look like I do. Actually if we easy for me to write a script
that deleted the files that are over a certain age in a certain folder,
maybe I Could run that once a week or each day or something to clean up the
backup folder.

Would this be easy?

Thanks
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

news.microsoft.com said:
Looking in the Task scheduler I only have a Symantec thing (live update
check) and an ISP signup reminder (scheduled to run again - NEVER).

So it does not look like I do. Actually if we easy for me to write a script
that deleted the files that are over a certain age in a certain folder,
maybe I Could run that once a week or each day or something to clean up the
backup folder.

Would this be easy?

Thanks

The following batch file will delete files older than one week:

@echo off
xxcopy /db#7 /rs /yy "c:\Some Folder\*.log" c:\temp\

xxcopy.exe can be downloaded from a number of sites.
 

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