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PowerSQL – Find Size, Name, LastAccess and Last Modified time of all bak files across ALL Servers

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We came across a scenario where database bak files being created from long time which are no more in use and hence cleanup those files since we’ve backup tool is in place. We’ve many *.BAK (database backup files) created across ‘N’ number of servers. We have decided to cleanup all *.bak files .  First we’ve listed all *.bak files  and validated it once and make sure which one is eligible for deletion. In this post, I’m just doing information gathering. To get a remote drive location, I’ve referred GetUNCpath function which is already posted in one of my previous blog.

The below code has three parts

1) Get the UNC path of each drive of a any server – get remote drive location

2) Test-Connection with the server – check for successful connection or not

3) Browse through each drive – Recursive search

Note:-

1)Input file =List.txt

2)Input Parameter = Extension (Any file extension BAK,SQL,PS1 etc:- In this case its BAK)

3)OutputFile =FileList.txt

The Server names are included in list.txt

aqvd002612

aqdb1812

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FUNCTION getUNCPath($infile)

{

$qualifier = Split-Path $infile -qualifier

$drive = $qualifier.substring(0,1)

$noqualifier = Split-Path $infile -noQualifier

“$drive`$$noqualifier”

}

FUNCTION Get-Files

{

Param([String]$extn)

FOREACH ($server in Get-Content List.txt)

{

if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $Server -Count 2 -Quiet )

{

$dp = Get-WmiObject win32_logicaldisk -ComputerName $server | Where-Object {$_.drivetype -eq 3}|select deviceid

foreach ($item in $dp)

{

$UNC=getUNCPath($item.deviceid)

$Path=”\\$Server\$UNC”

Write-host $path

Get-childitem $path -RECURSE –FORCE -ERRORACTION silentlycontinue *.$extn |select-object Name,DirectoryName,@{Name=”Size(MB)”;Expression={[math]::round($_.Length/1024/1024,3)}}, CreationTime,LastAccessTime,LastWriteTime |out-file -append c:\FileList.txt

}

}

else

{

Write-Warning “$Server seems dead not pinging”

}

}

}

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The Function calling code is given below

PS C:\> Get-Files -extn bak

Output – FileList.txt

Name : MMetaService_3-27-2013.bak

DirectoryName : \\aqdb1812\C$

Size(MB) : 5.156

CreationTime : 3/27/2013 10:37:26 PM

LastAccessTime : 4/4/2013 10:26:12 AM

LastWriteTime : 3/27/2013 10:37:26 PM

Name : WSS_Content_3-5-2013.bak

DirectoryName : \\aqdb1812\C$

Size(MB) : 161.166

CreationTime : 3/15/2013 2:08:25 PM

LastAccessTime : 4/29/2013 2:03:31 PM

LastWriteTime : 3/16/2013 1:59:26 AM

Invalid ServerName in List.txt

PS C:\> Get-Files -extn bak

WARNING: aqvd002612 seems dead not pinging

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