https://github.com/jessehouwing/WindowsFileHistoryCleaner

Simple command line executable to turn a File History share back into a snapshot of files
https://github.com/jessehouwing/WindowsFileHistoryCleaner

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Simple command line executable to turn a File History share back into a snapshot of files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jessehouwing/WindowsFileHistoryCleaner
• Owner: jessehouwing
• Created: 2018-08-24T11:39:38.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-09-17T22:38:50.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T05:08:51.976Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: backup, filehistory, windows
• Language: C#
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• Size: 12.7 KB
• Stars: 19
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml

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README

        
# Windows File History Cleaner

Simple commandline executable to turn a File History share back into a snapshot of files

## Sample command:

```

FileHistoryCleaner remove-history 

    --root "C:\BACKUP" 

    --recursive 

    --rd "(\\node_modules$|\\\$tf$|\.git$|\\locallow$|\\bin$|\\obj$|packages$)" 

    --rf "(\.DS_Store|.lnk$|\.exe$|\.msi$|\.iso$|\.dll$)"  

    --verbose 

    --force

    --whatif

```

 * `--root` points to the root of a File History share (or copy of one)

 * `--recursive` traverses all sub directories

 * `--rd` deletes directory recursively if it match the supplied regex. Be careful of the escape rules of both your commandline processor and regex.

 * `--rf` deletes files if it match the supplied regex. Be careful of the escape rules of both your commandline processor and regex.

 * `--verbose` outputs more logs

 * `--force` delete instead of move to the recycle bin

 * `--whatif` Output actions, but do not actually perform them

 

 ## History

 

 I wrote this little tool after my NAS became inaccessible. While taking a backup of the drives I found out the File History Snapshot of my laptop had grown beyong 1.4TB. 

 

 By running this little cleanup tool I managed to return the snapshot to 60GB of only the latest versions of every file.