Comments on: How to Delete Old IIS Log Files

By: Shaun College

Shaun College — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:23:45 +0000

Thanks you, very useful!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:18:18 +0000

Daniel, the script is set to automatically answer Yes if there is no input after 10 seconds. That is part of the “choice” command (the /D option) in the batch file.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:41:22 +0000

I had a customer where his servers disk space was all being used up by the IIS log files. Thanks for posting this idea for clearing up the log files, but I did find it strange that there wasn’t a way that IIS could automatically clear out old log files to your requirements, like after 90days.

By: Fred Homes

Fred Homes — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:09:21 +0000

I have tons of IIS log files in customer’s space, especially at old customers. And I am so curious if deleting IIS log files are safe. Then I found out that that DNP and AWStats use these logs for bandwith calculation but it’s always safe to delete or archive logs older than 7 or 14 or 31 days as per your convenience.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:21:54 +0000

Hi,
First i would like to thank you for your grate post, do you know how to automatic answer yes?

Thanks,

Daniel

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:51:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing your work and others a great deal of time! Works like a champ!

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:17:23 +0000

Hi Ebbsa,

You have to run the script locally on the server. If you don’t have physical access to the server, you can connect remotely to it via Remote Desktop and then run the script on it by first downloading it to the server. That’s the way I would do it.

Mario

By: Ebbsa

Ebbsa — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:17:37 +0000

Hi Mario,

Thanks for the script; it works great. Is there a way to delete a file on a remote server using a userid and password (possibly network userid and password)?

Thanks,

Ebbsa

By: Will

Will — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:24:55 +0000

Hi Mario

There are lots of folders under the windows\system32\logfiles directory. (some are 2GB) Can i backup these folders adn leave a week of log files or can i only do this in the main directory.

Cheers

Will

By: Senthil

Senthil — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:52:34 +0000

Hi Mario,
This script helped me a lot.
Thanks.
Thank you very much.

Senthil.S