Simple script to archive files a of a specified age from a source to destination while maintaining folder structure.

Writes log to script folder.

Warning: deletes empty folders!

Warning: Ages are imprecise, both input and the age of the files are cast to an integer for full days only.

Run the with arguments as follows:

python archiver.py <ACTION> <AGE_IN_DAYS> <SOURCE_PATH> <DESTINATION_PATH> <IGNORE_STRING1> <IGNORE_STRING2> <IGNORE_STRING...> <IGNORE_STRING10000000>

Actions are as follows: 'copy', 'move', 'delete'

If action is 'delete', do not provide destination path.

If executing in a windows environment, use forward slashes instead of backslashes in paths.

'Ignore_strings' aren't handled gracefully in any way, beware. ie. they are just looked for in file path names as a plain string, no wild cards, etc.

python archiver.py copy 31 C:/temp/lotsoffiles/ C:/temp/filearchive/ .ignorefolder donotdelete.text keepme.avi

python archiver.py move 31 C:/temp/lotsoffiles/ C:/temp/filearchive/ .ignorefolder donotdelete.text keepme.avi

python archiver.py delete 31 C:/temp/lotsoffiles/ .ignorefolder donotdelete.text keepme.avi

Requires pandas:

pip install pandas

• Tim Quan

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details