Feb 18, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Clearing and Backing Up Event Logs on Windows 2003 from the command line

Lets face it, we are always battling for disk space on our servers and as mush as we hate the space the the Windows event logs use we need them, but from a command line we can back them up and then clear them. We are able to do this using wmic commands and the sub command nteventlog. There are two methods available with what we are trying to accomplish, they are: BackupEventlog ClearEventlog Backup event... read more