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Title
How can I clean up the GPOADmin share used for backups? -
Description
As a long-time GPOADmin administrator, you may want to remove old GPOADmin backups. GPOADmin takes backups of managed objects which are usually small in size. However, depending on how many changes are made and how long you are using the product, the required disk space will increase.
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Resolution
The GPOADmin PowerShell module includes the "Remove-Backups" cmdlet.
The following is the description of the "man Remove-Backups -full" command.
NOTE: man (similar to Linux/Unix) is an alias for Get-Help which shows the help for the cmdlet. The "-full" parameter will show the full contents of the help document including examples.
DESCRIPTION
Removes backups older than the specified date. The backup will not be removed if it is the most recent backup of
the Version Controlled item or if the item is non-compliant. This command can only be run by an administrator of GPOADmin.
Using the PowerShell console, you would typically navigate to the drive created for the Version Control Root store (VCRoot:) using "cd VCRoot:".
From here you can either enumerate specific objects and run "Remove-Backups" or you run "Remove-Backups" against all objects.You can find some examples below:
- C:\PS>PS VCRoot:\> Dir -GPO | Remove-Backup -Date 01/01/2014
This example will remove all backups of all the GPOs in the VCRoot container whose date is older than 01/01/2014. (Format: MM//DD/YYYY).- C:\PS>PS VCRoot:\> Remove-Backup -Date 01/01/2014
This example will remove all backups of all Version Controlled items whose date is older than the 01/01/2014.
NOTE: You can add the "-Confirm" parameter in order to receive a confirmation before removing the backup.
For more details, please refer to the full help document as described above.