Use 7-Zip to Compress folders within a directory and then delete the source folder used to create the .zip file

Question

I need to run a script to compress all folders within a folder that is 2 levels within a directory structure. I want the script to compress all folders within the log folder and then delete the original folder, thus saving loads on space. To illustrate the folders I wish to compress, see below:

Drive Location-->machinename-->logtype-->folders_i_want_to_compress

Within folder 2 there are folders with dates in the format yyyymmdd and it is these that I wish to compress as zip files.

I cannot work out how to create a script to do this but I did find a similar script here:7-Zip compress files within a folder then delete files

... that looks like this:

REM Usage: ZipFilesRecursively.bat "C:\My Files"
for /R "%~f1" %%F in (*) do (
    7z a -mx9 "%%~dpnxF.7z" "%%F"
    if exist "%%~dpnxF.7z" del "%%F"
)

But this is only for files. I cannot work how to change this so that it works for folders rather than files although I believe the start of it would be to use for with the /D switch rather than the /R.

As the path to the folders is based partly on the machine name, I need to feed this into the script, so I was planning on using a call from another batch file to then run the compression/deletion script.

The call script will look something like this

Call zipdeletetest4 machinename1
Call zipdeletetest4 machinename2    
Call zipdeletetest4 machinename3
Call zipdeletetest4 machinename4

Can anyone help with this?

Answer 1

I eventually went for

REM compress folders to zips
for /d %%x in ("C:\Logs\*.*") do start "C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe" /b /low /wait "C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -tzip "%%x.zip" "%%x\"

REM delete the original folders used to create zips
for /d %%F in ("C:\Logs\*") do rd /s /q "%%F"

Answer 2

Assuming you are using 7zip for command line, you should be able to use the following script:

@ECHO OFF
for /d %%a in (*) do (7za a -tzip %%~na.zip "%%a")
for /d %%a in (*) do (if exist "%%a\" del "%%a")
pause

To use it, whack the batch file in the 'logtype' folder you mentioned, and run it.

Answer 3

Command sets are the right things to perform such tasks correctly.

command && command_OK || command_Fail

command_OK will be executed only if command finished successfully and command_Fail will be executed in case of error. Typical use of this pattern:

call %archiver% %file% && (del %file%) || (exit /b 1)

But in this very case you won't need any additional commands. Luckily 7zip features wonderful -sdel option which does the trick.

Answer 4

Here is what I use for folders.

@echo off
for /D %%d in (*) do (
7z a t -mx9 -t7z -y "%%~nd.7z" "%%~fd" 
if exist "%%~nd.7z" rmdir /s /q "%%~fd"
else
echo The file "%%~fd" DOES NOT exist
pause
)