Archive Windows System logs (event viewer)

Hi Guys,
Good Day.
I want to export daily all System event logs and generate report to a .CSV or .TXT file and then copy the report file to,
the following location \\Archivenasprd01\Appspr01\ddmmyyyy:
or is it possible to schedule this job ever 1 or half on hour and copy all the system event logs to the same above location with create valid time-stamp
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hi,
>>or is it possible to schedule this job ever 1 or half on hour and copy all the system event logs to the same above location with create valid time-stamp
Based on your description, we can utilize a script and schedule a task to run the script to save the System event logs.
For the script, in order to get better help, we can ask for suggestions in the following two forums.
The Official Scripting Guys Forum
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-us/home?forum=ITCG
Windows PowerShell
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverpowershell
Besides, the following blog can be referred to as reference.
Script to Save Event Logs
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jjameson/archive/2011/03/04/script-to-save-event-logs.aspx
Best regards,
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