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More PowerShell – a Cmdlet

September 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · General

This past weekend I spent some time reading up on and writing my first PowerShell cmdlet.   The cmdlet is an easy one, but replaces a PS function I have copy/pasted into several scripts here and there to handle cleaning out directories of old backups or other types of files.  One scenario is my RadioShark which I have setup [...]

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Backups and my first foray into PowerShell

November 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · General

First, some background. Last week I received the final pieces of my backup strategy, a pair of 500 GB hard drives that I will be rotating periodically to some undisclosed location that isn’t my house.  Right now, my fileserver makes backups and sticks them on a mirrored RAID array.  These drives are simply to hold [...]

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