Batch FIle PLEASE HELP

[arew264]

Batch File Problem

I have Norton GHost to do backups between three computers, and I need help making a batch file that renames the backup files that Ghost creates to the time and date they were created. I could replace this with a batch that simply names them to today's date as I will be running this file as a scheduled task the day the backup is created. The batch file I'm looking for should:

rename the files to match the date they were made
copy them to \\wielinator\backups\XP
move them to C:\backups\XP\old

The files I want this done to are in C:\backups\XP\New
THis is all part of a large scheduling, organizing, and copying plan that keeps three computers backed up and lets them do the backups when I don't have to worry about someone getting ticked off because their stuff got lost when they were working on it. I have the copy command with all the echo labeling I need:

ECHO OFF
ECHO This batch file copies the C drive backup files to the WIelinator
ECHO READY TO BACKUP
ECHO backing up...
COPY "C:\BACKUPS\XP\NEW" "\\WIELINATOR\BACKUPS\XP"
ECHO All done! I think I can do the move part of the file, but I can't get the renaming to work. I also tried the suggestion at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4...386947,00.asp but it would not work. I'm sure theres someone here who really knows how to make a batch file that can help me.


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[arew264]

Re: Batch File Problem

I have Norton GHost to do backups between three computers, and I need help making a batch file that renames the backup files that Ghost creates to the time and date they were created. I could replace this with a batch that simply names them to today's date as I will be running this file as a scheduled task the day the backup is created. The batch file I'm looking for should:

rename the files to match the date they were made
copy them to \\wielinator\backups\XP
move them to C:\backups\XP\old

The files I want this done to are in C:\backups\XP\New
THis is all part of a large scheduling, organizing, and copying plan that keeps three computers backed up and lets them do the backups when I don't have to worry about someone getting ticked off because their stuff got lost when they were working on it. I have the copy command with all the echo labeling I need:

ECHO OFF
ECHO This batch file copies the C drive backup files to the WIelinator
ECHO READY TO BACKUP
ECHO backing up...
COPY "C:\BACKUPS\XP\NEW" "\\WIELINATOR\BACKUPS\XP"
ECHO All done! I think I can do the move part of the file, but I can't get the renaming to work. I also tried the suggestion at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4...386947,00.asp but it would not work. I'm sure theres someone here who really knows how to make a batch file that can help me.


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I came up with this code but could not get it to work:

@ECHO OFF
FOR /F "tokens=1-4 delims=/ " %%I IN ('DATE /t') DO SET mydate=%%J-%%K-%%L
ECHO The value is "%mydate%"
ren C:\backups\XP\New\C_drive001.v2i %mydate%.v2i
copy C:\backups\XP\New\%mydate%_Cdrive.v2i \\wielinator\backups\XP\Old\%mydate%_Cdrive.v2i
move C:\backups\XP\New\%mydate%_Cdrive.v2i C:\backups\xp\old\%mydate%_Cdrive.v2i

could someone please help me? I can't get the rename to work.

 

[arew264]

Re: Batch File Problem

I just found this code:

For /F "tokens=2-4 delims=. " %%A in ('Date /T') Do Rename C:\backups\XP\new\C_driveoo1.v2i %%A%%B%%C_drive001.v2i

it works fine but could someone help me get it to separate the date with hyphens instead of slashes?

 

[arew264]

I'm using this line of code to rename a backup file and I have already created a script that moves it to a different folder. THe backup program will make the file and I will run this batch file to rename it to the date and move it.

For /F "tokens=2-4 delims=. " %%A in ('Date /T') Do Rename C:\backups\XP\new\C_driveoo1.v2i %%A%%B%%C_drive001.v2i

I need to get this code to separate the date with hyphens instead of slashes. can someone please help me?

 

[the_tazinator]

Try this and see if it work the way you want.

for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do ren "C:\backups\XP\new\C_driveoo1.v2i" %%a-%%b-%%c-C_drive001.v2i

 

[arew264]

Thanks for your help. THere is one more thing though. I have a third computer running windows 98 what I'm sending the backups to. I have a batch file on there that I needed this code for also but it wouldn't work. Here's the code:

copy C:\backups\xp\new\ \\ex98\backups\xp\new\
copy C:\backups\98\new\ \\XP\backups\98\new\
for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do move C:\backups\98\new\%%b-%%a-%%c-98C_drive.v2i C:\backups\98\old\%%b-%%a-%%c-98C_drive.v2i
for /f "tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do move C:\backups\XP\new\%%b-%%a-%%c-XPC_drive.v2i C:\backups\XP\old\%%b-%%a-%%c-XPC_drive.v2i

I hope someone can find a way to make this work on windows 98 like it did on XP.

 

[chaos945]

I threw togeather this little program. Run it from the cmdline.

Renames all specified file types to their creation date and time, then moves them to another folder.

I don't know if it will work on win9x systems though, let me know and I can revise it.

Example:
timebch.exe <source> <destination> <filetype>
timebch.exe "C:\ghost\files\\" "C:\ghost\backup\" "bak"

Visit the AutoIt forums if you want to follow the progress of this script