topic Re: RE: Delete Older logs in Visualization and Usability

RE: Delete Older logs

Chanty4u — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:31:25 GMT

Hi All,

ogster1974

youssefbelloum

omarbensalem‌

i want to delete the logfiles older than 30 days

how to do this? in Qliksense server

this is the path saving the logs in server : C:\QlikShare\ArchivedLogs

this folder logs i need to delete monthly once .

Re: RE: Delete Older logs

YoussefBelloum — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:21:06 GMT

Hi,

you can follow the solution provided by Robert sveback on this thread and tell us

Re: Sense: 5Gig of logs in: ProgramData\Qlik\Sense\Log

Re: RE: Delete Older logs

Chanty4u — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:38:29 GMT

Thanks youssefbelloum‌ let me try it and come back to you

Re: RE: Delete Older logs

Chanty4u — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 06:04:18 GMT

thanks Yousuf,

we have created a powershell code and ran the window scheduler and working fyn

Re: RE: Delete Older logs

YoussefBelloum — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 10:35:25 GMT

You're welcome chanty

Good luck

Re: RE: Delete Older logs

ManimekalaiS — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:52:49 GMT

//In Load editor create below procedure and call with Pathname, older days
Sub DeleteOldFiles (vPath,vNoOfDaysToKeep)
//Move file from C:\TestLog to C:\Logs\NPrintLog
// LET MoveCmd = 'MOVE $(vPath)"\*.*" "C:\Logs\NPrintLog\"';
//Copy files from C:\TestLog to C:\Logs\NPrintLog
LET MoveCmd = 'COPY $(vPath)"\*.*" "C:\Logs\NPrintLog\"';
execute cmd.exe /c "$(MoveCmd)" ;
//Delete older 30 days files from C:\APPL Qlik\TestLog
LET DelCmd = 'forfiles /p $(vPath) /s /m *.* /d -$(vNoOfDaysToKeep) /c "cmd /c del @file"';
execute cmd.exe /c "$(DelCmd)" ;
End Sub;

Call DeleteOldFiles ('"C:\TestLog"',30);

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**Syntax Details

/p Path The Path to search (default=current folder)
/m SrchMask Select files matching the specified search mask
default = *.*
/s Recurse into sub-folders
/c command The command to execute for each file.
/d date Select files with a last modified date greater than or

equal to (+), or less than or equal to (-),

the specified date, using the region specific date format

typically "MM/DD/yyyy" or "DD/MM/yyyy"