====== Delete Files Older Than X Days on Windows====== http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51054/batch-file-to-delete-files-older-than-n-days http://forums.devshed.com/windows-help-34/deleting-files-older-than-14-days-using-batch-file-script-364137-2.html This will delete all files in a backup directory older than 3 days: forfiles -p z:\backup -s -m *.* -d -3 -c "cmd /c del /q @path" To test it first, this will print out each file that you will be deleting: forfiles -p z:\backup -s -m *.* -d -3 -c "cmd /C Echo 0x22@Path\@File0x22" Syntax for Windows 2008: forfiles /P "C:\Mysql_backup" /S /M *.sql /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @PATH"