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Last month I started a project to begin backing up critical folders<\/a>. This backup process is nothing more than another restore option should I need it. Still, it has been running for over a month and I now have a number of full backup files. I don't need to keep all of them. If I keep the 4 most recent full backups, that should be sufficient. Here's how I manage this process using PowerShell.<\/p>\n

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When I create a full backup file, it gets copied to a share on my Synology NAS device. Here's what I have now.<\/p>\n

\"backup<\/a><\/p>\n

If you recall, each file name includes what is in essence a set description; Scripts and Dropbox for example. It is easy enough to sort the files on the last write time and then delete accordingly.\u00a0 I have 5 sets\u00a0 and could run this:<\/p>\n

Get-childitem -Path \"\\\\ds416\\backup\\20*-full.rar\" |\nSort-Object -Property LastWriteTime -Descending |\nSelect-Object -Skip 20\n<\/pre>\n
\"Files<\/a><\/p>\n
I these should be the oldest files that I can delete. However, I don't want to make any assumptions. What if a full backup didn't complete one week or I manually ran an extra full backup? I need a more sophisticated approach. Let's start again.<\/p>\n
First, get all of the backup files.<\/p>\n
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path \"\\\\ds416\\backup\\20*-full.rar\" -file\n<\/pre>\n
Next, using a regular expression pattern to extract the backup set name, I group the files.<\/p>\n
$grouped = $files | Group-Object -property { ([regex]\"(?<=_)\\w+(?=-)\").match($_.BaseName).value }\n<\/pre>\n
The regular expression is looking for text that is preceded by an _ and followed by a -. These are lookbehinds and lookaheads.<\/p>\n
\"Grouped<\/a><\/p>\n
Now I can process each group, sort the files and remove the oldest ones.<\/p>\n
foreach ($item in $grouped) {\n   $item.group | Sort-Object -property LastWriteTime -descending | Select-Object -skip 4 | Remove-Item -WhatIf\n}\n<\/pre>\n
\"Removing<\/a><\/p>\n
Here's my complete backup trim PowerShell script.<\/p>\n
#MyBackupTrim.ps1\n\n#trim full backups to the last X number of files\n\n[cmdletbinding(SupportsShouldProcess)]\nParam(\n    [Parameter(Position = 0, HelpMessage = \"Specify the backup folder location\")]\n    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]\n    [ValidateScript({Test-Path $_ })]\n    [string]$Path = \"\\\\ds416\\backup\",\n    [Parameter(HelpMessage = \"Specify a file pattern\")]\n    [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]\n    [string]$Pattern = \"*-FULL.rar\",\n    [Parameter(HelpMessage = \"Specify the number of the most recent files to keep\")]\n    [Validatescript({ $_ -ge 1 })]\n    [int]$Count = 4\n)\n\n$find = Join-Path -Path $path -ChildPath $pattern\nWrite-Verbose \"Finding backup files from $Find\"\nTry {\n    $files = Get-ChildItem -Path $find -file -ErrorAction Stop\n}\nCatch {\n    Throw $_\n}\n\nif ($files.count -gt 0) {\n    Write-Verbose \"Found $($files.count) backup files\"\n    # group the files based on the naming convention\n    # like 20191108_documents-FULL.rar and 20191108_Scripts-FULL.rar\n    # but make sure there are at least $Count number of files\n    $grouped = $files | Group-Object -property { ([regex]\"(?<=_)\\w+(?=-)\").match($_.BaseName).value } | Where-Object { $_.count -gt $count}\n    if ($grouped) {\n        foreach ($item in $grouped) {\n            Write-Verbose \"Trimming $($item.name)\"\n            $item.group | Sort-Object -property LastWriteTime -descending | Select-Object -skip $count | Remove-Item\n        }\n    }\n    else {\n        Write-Host \"Not enough files to justify cleanup.\" -ForegroundColor magenta\n    }\n}\n\n#End of script\n<\/pre>\n
\"Running<\/a><\/p>\n
I can add this script to the end of my Weekly backup script and trim away old files. I can periodically check my backup folders manually to verify I'm only keeping what I really need. Otherwise I can kick back and let PowerShell do my work for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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