Copy the dir to another dir starting of each

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ashu - Sep 10, 2009 at 02:46 AM
sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 - Oct 1, 2009 at 04:55 PM
Hello,

I need a batch file that copy the dir to another dir starting of each month and make a separate a copy of copied folder (e.g, 01092009, 01102009) when run starting of each month. In this way I keep the backup of my windows server 2003. Please let me know

thank you in advance
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Sep 13, 2009 at 08:00 AM
using xcopy in your batch file you will be able to do this
https://www.petefreitag.com/item/99.cfm

for example
xcopy /S d:\text\*.* d:\text2\

this will copy the contents and all directories from d:\text and make a directory of text2 on d: and copy all the contents including directories from 'text' directory

using the switches in the first link you will be able to modify to suit your circumstances.
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Hi Sharpaman,

Thank you for your reply

I tried this switch already and tried once again after your reply but it does not work. When I ran batch file nothing copied in destination directory...

here is the batch file that I m using on windows server 2003

xcopy /S /E e:\ashu\share\file and documents\*.* e:\ashu\share\backup file and documents\20090901

could you please suggest how it can be achieved

Thanks in advance
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Sep 13, 2009 at 12:41 PM
ok try this

xcopy /E /I e:\ashu\share\file and documents\*.* e:\ashu\share\backup file and documents\20090901

that works for me.

what you did was /S and /E but implies that the /S switch is used so you only need /E

if you use the line as amended it will do what you require.

hope that helps.

let me know. thanks
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Hi Sharpman,

It resolved my issue but not completely that I was looking. I also looking for creation of new destination folder month wise as I will schedule this script to run monthly (e.g. If batch file runs on 1st day of October all source directory conetnt copied to new destination folder like 20091001 then for Nov 20091101, for Dec 20091201, for Jan 20100101 like goes on)

could you please suggest or help in this regard.


Thanks in advance
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183 > ashu
Sep 15, 2009 at 06:18 PM
Ok Ashu,
Give this a go.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@ECHO OFF

rem works in XP
rem =====================
rem setting the variables for use
rem =====================

SET dd=%DATE:~0,2%
SET mm=%DATE:~3,2%
SET yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%

rem ============================
rem following line will copy directory and all
rem sub directory contents into dated directory
rem ============================

xcopy /E /I d:\working_directory\*.* d:\backup_directory\%yyyy%%mm%%dd%
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

again, edit to suit.


let me know if that works for your purpose.
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Hi Sharpman,

I tried this but this does not work. could you please let me know in any other way if we can acheive it.

thanks,
Ashish
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Sep 17, 2009 at 05:00 PM
when you say it does not work, what errors, if any are you getting.
I have tried it on my system using test directories and it worked a treat. where or what is it not working on?
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I have copied the command as it and changed the source and destination folder path, when I executed it, It didnt run. Please correct me if I am doing wrong thing

here is my command
@ECHO OFF

rem works in XP
rem =====================
rem setting the variables for use
rem =====================

SET dd=%DATE:~0,2%
SET mm=%DATE:~3,2%
SET yyyy=%DATE:~6,4%

rem ============================
rem following line will copy directory and all
rem sub directory contents into dated directory
rem ============================



xcopy /E /I "e:\ashu\share\file and documents\*.*" "e:\ashu\share\backup file and documents\%yyyy%%mm%%dd%"


Please correct me if I doing in right way.....Thanks you a lot for your patience and efforts till now
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183
Sep 18, 2009 at 03:00 PM
what are the speech marks for? ("")
maybe that is causing an issue.
also, if you name your directories thus:
file_and_documents
backup_file_and_documents

don't think it likes the spaces in directory names
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Thank You Sharpman, It's worked

I really appreciated your help in this regard
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sharpman Posts 1021 Registration date Saturday May 23, 2009 Status Contributor Last seen October 20, 2010 183 > Ashu
Oct 1, 2009 at 04:55 PM
thanks Ashu, glad to help, keeps me on me toes. :-)
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