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PowerShell: Cleaning up IIS Logs

This one is a quick and easy one. We have multiple IIS boxes, which each generate large usage logs on a daily basis. To save space, and for analytics off-server, we compress the log files. Having found Rar is one of the better compression algorithms, we simply shell out to rar, compress the logs, and cleanup older logs.

$winrar = 'd:\program files\winrar\rar.exe'

$path = $args[0]

Get-ChildItem $path -recurse | where{$_.Extension -match "log"} | Foreach-Object `
{
    $log_name = $_.FullName
    $rar_name = $log_name.Replace(".log", ".rar")
    
    $args = "-ri1 m $rar_name $log_name"
    
    [Diagnostics.Process]::Start($winrar, $args)
    
    Start-Sleep -s 5
    
}

$date = Get-Date
$month = $date.Month
$year = $date.Year

$new_date = Get-Date "$month/01/$year"
$log_date = $new_date.AddMonths(-3)

Get-ChildItem $path -recurse | Where { $_.Extension -match "rar" -and $_.LastWriteTime -le $log_date} | ForEach-Object {
  Remove-Item $_.FullName
}

This could probably do with some cleaning up as there are probably some slightly more efficient ways of doing some of this, but it works.

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