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QuickTip – RoboCopy – Command to Move Files Older Than Certain Number of Days, with Directory Structure

QuickTip – RoboCopy – Command to Move Files Older Than Certain Number of Days, with Directory Structure

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Let’s say that you have a design department share that is filling up your datastore of one of your on-premises ESXi servers hosting some Windows file servers. Your budget to upgrade your host servers has been delayed and, thanks to Covid-19, now, even further out. You need to keep this datastore from filling up but don’t want to force the end users to deal with changes on their Macs but still allow the data to be accessible. The design manager…

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VMWare PowerCLI – Backup ESXi Host Configuration

VMWare PowerCLI – Backup ESXi Host Configuration

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I had been using a version of this script to backup my VMWare ESXi host configurations for several years and across several versions of ESXi and vCenter server. This script was connecting to my vCenter Server (at 192.168.0.9) and downloading the configurations to a network share (at 192.168.0.62). It would also cycle the files in and out (deleting old backups) in a First-In-First-Out scheme. Param ( [string]$VIServer = “192.168.0.9”, [string]$ConfigPath = “\\192.168.0.62\backups\ESXiHosts\”, [int]$Days = 21 ) If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core…

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