Use a Mirror Job to delete data at Level 3 and below

[Alice]

Hi there

is it possible to use a Mirror Job to replicate an empty folder at Source onto an existing Destination structure, such that only files and folders at Level 3 and below in the Destination would be erased by that Mirror operation.

eg Destination structure is :

Level 1
C:\My Data
Level 2
C:\My Data\2019
C:\My Data\2020
C:\My Data\2021
Level 3
C:\My Data\2019\Finance
C:\My Data\2019\Reports
C:\My Data\2019\Year End
C:\My Data\2020\Finance
C:\My Data\2020\Reports
C:\My Data\2020\Year End
C:\My Data\2021\Finance
C:\My Data\2021\Reports
C:\My Data\2021\Year End

so the folders in bold and their children would be deleted only

Thanks as always



A.

[TGRMN Software]

Hi , try these file filters:

Exclude>C:\My Data\*
Exclude>C:\My Data\*\*
Include>C:\My Data\*\*\*

Are the folders:

C:\My Data\2019
C:\My Data\2020
C:\My Data\2021

without any files in them?
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[Alice]

Hi and thanks for the guidance.

What I've presented is a simplified example, there are in fact 120 folders at level 3 and yes there could be many many files at Level 2.

Basically this is a 'purge' of old data, but I wanted to keep the folder structure down to Level 2 'in-place' to make it easier to review - a quick 'memory jog', without having to open old spreadsheets of the original data structures, unless I have to !

Might be easier for me to use VV to create the current structure elsewhere (Taxonomy Job - ie without the files) delete the original structure in full and then copy back the parts of the Taxonomy structure that I need, ie down to Level 2.


Thanks again


A.

[TGRMN Software]

You could try using relative paths:

Exclude>\*
Exclude>\*\*
Include>\*\*\*

Then you do not need to specify each subfolder individually.
Try a comparison with the above filters to see if files are excluded as you expect....
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[Alice]

Hi there, thanks for the advice.

So I tried the following as Sub-Folder Filters :

Exclude>\*
Exclude>\*\*
Include>\*\*\*

with setting 'No empty source/target check' turned 'on'.

This is all good and works, but there may well be files directly in these folders :

C:\My Data\2019
C:\My Data\2020
C:\My Data\2021

and these files are not deleted with the Sub-Folder Filters listed above applied...


we are close to a solution though ! Thank you

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, do you want to delete the files that are in :

C:\My Data\2019
C:\My Data\2020
C:\My Data\2021

Or only files and folders at Level 3 and below?
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[Alice]

Both conditions you mention are true.

Sorry for not being clear.

So :

1) purge anything (files and folders) at or below Level 3
2) purge files only at Level 2, leaving the folders at Level 2 in place

[Alice]

I'm assuming this can't be done

....maybe in VV 4 ?

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, I think it cannot be done because once you exclude a subfolder also the files inside are excluded.
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