Wednesday, June 09, 2010

W3SVC Log Files are Filling Up Your SBS's System Drive

I can't believe that I haven't encountered this sooner:  The system drive on an SBS 2003 was full.  I used my trusty SequoiaView and found that the W3SVC1 folder was 6.14GB - OUCH!  A quick Google search yielded an excellent discussion of how to deal with the matter.


At a command prompt enter this all on one line:


at 12:00 /EVERY:Su Forfiles.exe -p C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 -m *.log -d -30 -c "Cmd.exe /C del @path\" 


This will schedule a job that will run every Sunday and remove W3SVC1 log files that are >30 days old.


Thanks to Tom Watson for posting this gem!

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:14 PM

    Can this be applied to any type of file? This command could be very useful.

    Thanks-

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  2. Anonymous11:09 PM

    nice.

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  3. Anonymous4:06 PM

    Brilliant. TY.

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