Utility to create file listing that shows offline attribute?
Created: 07 Jan 2013 | Updated: 08 Jan 2013 | 8 comments
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I'm about to do a bulk recall of a lot of data using FSAUtility -b. I work in an industry where you often have to validate the tools you're using work as advertised. So I need a utility or command line tool that will allow me to get a full recursed file listing of a target directory, showing me date and time stamps as well as file attributes (including the offline attribute).
Anyone know of such a creature?
If not, has anyone ever had to "validate" FSAUtility's bulk recall before? I need to show the set of files in a target directory are the same before and after the recall. I'll have to base the compare solely on timestamps b/c the placeholder is obviously different from the recalled original.
Thanks!
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what about something like dir /a /s > listing.txt ?
Andy Becker | Authorized Symantec Consultant | Trace3 | Symantec National Partner | www.trace3.com
Windows Explorer can do this if you do a search for *.*, show 'details' and then add the column in for 'attributes'.
Or.. am I missing a nuance of what you're after?
Many Thanks,
Rob
www.quadrotech-it.com - All your EV Tools
PS I hope that the post proves helpful.
The "dir" command doesn't show the attributes, and the "attrib" command doesn't show the offline (-O) attribute.
A search from Windows Explorer will show me what I want to see ( all files in a source directory w/ their date and time stamps and attributes), but there's no way I know of creating a PDF or a report in some other format.
I need a report to show what I have before and after the recall.
AH COOL. I understand now.
Standby.
Many Thanks,
Rob
www.quadrotech-it.com - All your EV Tools
PS I hope that the post proves helpful.
A few options..
a/ Dir /N
This will list offline files with their size in brackets ...
<snip>
C:\Data>dir /N Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 7CB3-3D1B Directory of C:\Data 03/01/2013 10:59 <DIR> . 03/01/2013 10:59 <DIR> .. 21/12/2012 14:25 (47,089) items to archive.linq 21/12/2012 16:07 4 readme.txt.txt 21/12/2012 16:36 12,486 test.docx 3 File(s) 59,579 bytes 2 Dir(s) 120,554,536,960 bytes free</snip>
Use some script-action:
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Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Const ForAppending = 2 Dim objFSO:Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") LogFile = "c:\exportme.log" Dim objLogFile:Set objLogFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(logfile, 2, True) objStartFolder = "C:\data" Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder) objLogFile.Write objFolder.Path objLogFile.Writeline Set colFiles = objFolder.Files oStr="" For Each objFile in colFiles oStr = "" oStr = objFile.Name & " : " & objFile.Attributes ' Do a bit of manipulation on Attribute value if objFile.Attributes AND 1024 then oStr = oStr + " REPARSE" end if objLogFile.Write oStr objLogFile.Writeline Next objLogFile.Writeline ShowSubfolders objFSO.GetFolder(objStartFolder) Sub ShowSubFolders(Folder) For Each Subfolder in Folder.SubFolders objLogFile.Write Subfolder.Path objLogFile.Writeline Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(Subfolder.Path) Set colFiles = objFolder.Files For Each objFile in colFiles oStr="" oStr = objFile.Name & " : " & objFile.Attributes ' Do a bit of manipulation on Attribute value if objFile.Attributes AND 1024 then oStr = oStr + " REPARSE" end if objLogFile.Write oStr objLogFile.Writeline Next ShowSubFolders Subfolder Next End Sub objLogFile.Close</snip>
That outputs :
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Many Thanks,
Rob
www.quadrotech-it.com - All your EV Tools
PS I hope that the post proves helpful.
check this out https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/downloads/...
Andy Becker | Authorized Symantec Consultant | Trace3 | Symantec National Partner | www.trace3.com
The script is a great place to start. The only issue is that it either gives me a listing of everything or nothing, depending how we tweak the where.
-eq doesn't display any offline files
-ne displays all files, including offline files
I have a coworker who knows a little powershell. We're going to try to tweak it.
Thanks!
My coworker was able to tweak it so I get a listing of what we need. We're going to create two different csv's:
# Create detailed listing of just the Offline files (EV placeholders) Get-ChildItem $fldr -recurse | Where-Object {$_.Attributes -like '*Offline*'} | select PSDrive, DirectoryName, Name, Mode, Length, IsReadOnly, FullName, CreationTime, LastWriteTime, Attributes | Export-Csv "$csvfldr\OfflineFiles.csv" # Create detailed listing of all files Get-ChildItem $fldr -recurse | select PSDrive, DirectoryName, Name, Mode, Length, IsReadOnly, FullName, CreationTime, LastWriteTime, Attributes | Export-Csv "$csvfldr\AllFiles.csv"Would you like to reply?
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