how to creating a batch file which......

[*JimmyJ*]

copies all files and folders including sub-directories to a new folder on a different drive? What i want to do is backup the contents of my documents on a daily basics to a new drive, but on the new drive i would like the batch to be place the backups within a folder called monday_backup, tuesday_backup etc etc depending on what day the backup were ran.

Hope this makes sense I can't remember for the life of me how to write the script. :S

 

[Andy.]

@echo off
for /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%I in ('date /t') do (
set DayOfWeek=%%I
set Month=%%J
set Day=%%I
set Year=%%K
set Date=%%I %%J/%%K/%%L
)
mkdir "D:\\XXX\xx\Backup\%Year%%Month%%DAY%"

copy C:\XXX\XX\*.* "D:\\XXX\xx\Backup\%Year%%Month%%DAY%"

Change the directory paths as you need... the date/ month can also be changed to the format you want

 

[*JimmyJ*]

@echo off
for /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%I in ('date /t') do (
set DayOfWeek=%%I
set Month=%%J
set Day=%%I
set Year=%%K
set Date=%%I %%J/%%K/%%L
)
mkdir "D:\\XXX\xx\Backup\%Year%%Month%%DAY%"

copy C:\Documents and Settings\JSW\My Documents\phone system\*.* "D:\\XXX\xx\Backup\%Year%%Month%%DAY%"

made the following changes within the script, but something is not right? It creates the XXX\xx\Backup\20070529 directory on the d: drive but it doesn't copy the content and sub directories with C:\Documents and Settings\JSW\My Documents\phone system. What the hell am i doing wrong? lol.

 

[David]

use robocopy, it's better, and more efficeint.

 

[*JimmyJ*]

bump

 

[Andy.]

Put brakets around the C:\Documents and Settings\JSW\My Documents\phone system\*.* perhaps?:

copy "C:\Documents and Settings\JSW\My Documents\phone system\*.*" "D:\\XXX\xx\Backup\%Year%%Month%%DAY%"

 

[*JimmyJ*]

excellent that now works! how do i get it to place the files in a folder called monday_backup tuesday_backup etc etc depending on when batch file was ran?

 

[Rasclart]

use robocopy, it's better, and more efficeint.

As he says use Robycopy has loads of usefull switches especially ignoring files etc

Then just schedule it to run

 

[Andy.]

Yep, the date will change automatically each day.