Or, a bit more efficiently, at the conclusion of the copy job, delete all
files older than xx days.

There are many tools to handle this last part.

*http://KB.UltraTech-llc.com/?File=DelOld.TXT
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Christopher Bodnar <
[email protected]> wrote:

> How about actually deleting them? Set this up as a batch job and have the
> first part of the job clear out the destination folder. Then just copy over
> the last X days.
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> From:        Paul Hutchings <[email protected]>
> To:        "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]
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> Date:        01/25/2012 08:12 AM
> Subject:        Robocopy - rolling copy of the last X days?
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> This is a little embarrassing as I’m sure I’m missing something obvious
> but… how can I use robocopy to copy the last X days of files from source to
> destination, so that the destination only ever contains the last X days too?
>
> I can tell it to ignore the old files in the source, what I simply cannot
> fathom is how to make it mirror this to the destination so I only ever have
> the last X days worth of files.
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> Thanks,
> Paul
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