It always bothered me that SAP systems are so horribly bad at cleaning up after themselves. Especially anything that runs on Java, windows or is a thridparty plugin/adaptor/app/whatever.And given that I in many cases dont even have an SAP/ABAP backend to program a cleanup in, I had to make due with regular windows expressions and commands.
So the other day, when I had a javabased plugin, running on a windows system that was creating about 500 logfiles/day, I figured, enough is enough, I dont WANT anymore alerts on semifull disks, bad performance or requests for defrag etc. etc. caused by millions of small files taking up all the space on the system.
So I decided to create a small script that would clean up all of the subfolders that contained the offending files.
I created a file called "cleanup.cmd" and placed in on the servers desktop.
In the file, I put a lot of lines that would uniquely identify the files that I was looking for, lines like this:
forfiles /P "<absolute_path_without_wildcards>" /S /M <mask> /D -<age> /C "cmd /c echo @path"
Once each line selected the stuff I wanted from the directories (and with the /S also subdirectories) I wanted, I replaced the "cmd /c echo @path" with "cmd /c del @path" and saved the file.
Then it's just a matter of scheduling it in the windows scheduler to run on a monthly basis.
At some point in time, I'll take the time to create a script that'll be able to accept a parameter or two so that it'll clean up each of the different types of systems I manage, that does not clean up all of its own work- and logfiles (XI, gw connector, charm, TREX, livereorg, redwood, BPC, SBOP, sapconsole etc....). It would be so nice if I could just maintain ONE script.... Oh, the hazzards of automation :D
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