How to delete files older than 30 days with robocopy?

Question

We are considering to use the elastic search. But we could not decide if we should use nested objects or plain objects. What are the pros and cons ?

We have highly schema changed datasource.(hourly)

Solution

I don't know how to do it with robocopy, but when I wanted to do the same as what you're doing, I put this line in my batch file:

forfiles -p %_BACKUPPATH% -m *.rar -d -3 -c "cmd /c del @path"

A dissection is:

• forfiles - The program for filtering the files
• -p %_BACKUPPATH% - -p indicates "path" (mine is %_BACKUPPATH% but you can replace this with a "real" path), otherwise it uses the current directory
• -m *.rar - filter by filetype .rar, skip this parameter for *.*
• -d -3 - Only affect files older than 3 days (-3)
• -c "cmd /c del @path" - anything after the -c is what will be executed for each file it finds, in this case, del.

Comments

[Julio Guerra]

Good to know, but I will delete any file older than 3 days. This in not exactly what I want, I just want to delete files deleted in the src folder since n days.

[MrGigu]

@Julio - and I take it the /mir switch isn't doing this for you?

[Julio Guerra]

No. I synced a new file file first, then I deleted it in the src folder and I ran the previous command with /mir and /minage:30 expecting a "delete files older than 30 days" behavior but it does not.

[Rıfat Erdem Sahin]

if objects are nested it means there are multiple queries to retrieve that object right ?

[Jettro Coenradie]

No not really, you can do a nested query to obtain the document. You cannot get back the nested object, only the document containing the nested object. Maybe you mean the parent-child structure also available in elasticsearch

[Rıfat Erdem Sahin]

I need an adaptive system and I also need it fast.