Timer Jobs to Copy and Delete Files in a Farm

March 1 2010 31 comments

There is sometimes a need to copy files in a SharePoint farm on different locations, than what can be specified in wsp-packages. Usually the best way to do it farm-wide, is to use Features and timer jobs. Timer jobs can be specified so that they are executed on every single machine in a SharePoint farm. In SharePoint 2007 the most common need we have had, is the copying of .resx and .browser files to a web application’s App_GlobalResources and App_Browsers directories. For most of you this is fairly basic information, but there might be readers and new comers to whom this might be interesting.

On web application level Feature’s feature activation we use the generic copy timer task as the following:

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
    var webApp = properties.Feature.Parent as SPWebApplication;
    if (webApp == null) return;
    var src = Path.Combine(properties.Definition.RootDirectory, "x.browser");
   
    foreach (var settings in webApp.IisSettings)
    {
        var dst = Path.Combine(Path.Combine(
        settings.Value.Path.FullName, "App_Browsers"), "x.browser");
       
        var touch = Path.Combine(Path.Combine(
            settings.Value.Path.FullName, "App_Browsers"), "compat.browser");
       
        var job = new CopyTimerJob(
            "Sininen Meteoriitti X Control Adapter Copy Timer Job",
            webApp, null, SPJobLockType.None)
        {
            Schedule = new SPOneTimeSchedule(DateTime.Now)
        };
        job.Properties.Add("src", src);
        job.Properties.Add("dst", dst);
        job.Properties.Add("touch", touch);
        job.Update();
    }
}

The code that does the actual copying of the file is defined in generic copy timer job class:

public class CopyTimerJob : SPJobDefinition
{
    // Constructors stripped off to save some space
   
    public override void Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)
    {
        try
        {
            var src = Properties["src"] as string;
            var dst = Properties["dst"] as string;
            var touch = Properties["touch"] as string;
            if (src == null || dst == null) return;
            var directoryName = Path.GetDirectoryName(dst);
            if (!Directory.Exists(directoryName)) return;
            File.Copy(src, dst, true);
            if (touch != null && File.Exists(touch))
            {
                File.SetLastWriteTime(touch, DateTime.Now);
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            Delete();
        }
    }
}

For deletes (on Feature deactivation) we have a similar timer job:

public override void Execute(Guid targetInstanceId)
{
    try
    {
        var src = Properties["src"] as string;
        var touch = Properties["touch"] as string;
        if (src == null) return;
        if (File.Exists(src)) File.Delete(src);
        if (touch != null && File.Exists(touch))
        {
            File.SetLastWriteTime(touch, DateTime.Now);
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        Delete();
    }
}

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31 comments to “Timer Jobs to Copy and Delete Files in a Farm”

  1. [...] Timer Jobs to Copy and Delete Files in a Farm (SharePoint Blues)There is sometimes a need to copy files in a SharePoint farm on different locations, than what can be specified in wsp-packages. Usually the best way to do it farm-wide, is to use Features and timer jobs. Timer jobs can be specified so that they are executed on every single machine in a SharePoint farm. In SharePoint 2007 the most common need we have had, is the copying of .resx and .browser files to a web application’s App_GlobalResources and App_Browsers directories. For most of you this is fairly basic information, but there might be readers and new comers to whom this might be interesting. [...]

  2. [...] job to copy the meteoriitti_error.browser in web application’s App_Browsers directory (see timer jobs). The timer job is used to handle farm deployment scenario where there are multiple web front ends. [...]

  3. Michael says:

    i am using http://sptimerjobadmin.codeplex.com/ and all I want to do is get my custom properties to show up in the config page.

    What is the best way to create dynamic properties for SPTimerJobs?

    regards,

    Michael

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