stevie wrote:
> Wow Phil, looks like a solution!
>
> But what do I need to do??
>
> What is BackupInfofile.cmd? Is this a file I need to
> create, and then call it in a bat file?
Hi, Stevie,
BackupInfofile.cmd *is* a batch file. If you make whatever
changes are appropriate for your situation (like changing
the name of the directory) and remove the word 'echo' from
line 8 (added for demonstration purposes only), it should
work for you.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Stevie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi guys.
>>>
>>>I have a file that I need to back-up every 2 hours, as
>
> it gets overwritten. I want to do this by setting up a
> bat file to copy the file to a Logs directory. I will
> then schedule windows 2000 to run this every 2 hours.
>
>>>My problem is that it will overwrite my previous back-
>
> up as it is in the same name. Is there a way to code a
> bat file to copy a file and write it to a location with a
> name change that increments by one.. ie InfoFile.xls
> backs-ups would be InfoFile1.xls, InfoFile2.xls
> InfoFile3.xls ect
>
>>>Or does anyone else have a more practical solution.
>>>Please try to keep it as simple as possible as I'm a
>
> novice user.
>
>>- - - - - - - - - - begin screen capture Win2000 - - - - - - - - - -
>>C:\cmd>dir /o-d \junkdir\InfoFile*.xls | find "/"
>>02/17/2004 11:29a 0 InfoFile0003.xls
>>02/17/2004 11:29a 0 InfoFile0002.xls
>>02/17/2004 11:29a 0 InfoFile0001.xls
>>
>>C:\cmd>demo\BackupInfofile
>>copy InfoFile.xls \junkdir\InfoFile0004.xls
>>
>>C:\cmd>rlist demo\BackupInfofile.cmd
>>=====begin C:\cmd\demo\BackupInfofile.cmd ====================
>>1. @echo off
>>2. setlocal
>>3. dir /b /o-d \junkdir\InfoFile*.xls > c:\temp\wrkfile.
>>4. set /p last_num=<c:\temp\wrkfile.
>>5. set last_num=%last_num:InfoFile=%
>>6. set /a next_number = 1%last_num:.xls=%+1
>>7. set next_number=%next_number:~1%
>>8. echo copy InfoFile.xls \junkdir\InfoFile%next_number%.xls
>>=====end C:\cmd\demo\BackupInfofile.cmd====================
>>- - - - - - - - - - end screen capture Win2000 - - - - - - - - - -
--
Phil Robyn
Univ. of California, Berkeley
u n z i p m y a d d r e s s t o s e n d e - m a i l
|
Similar Threads
