Copying files to another drive

[Charles L. Phillips]

Hello,
I have a folder containing several files. I have 3 drives, C:\, D:\ & G:\
(Zip).
The Zip drive copies the folder at a certain of the day.
I want to do an XCOPY /V of the same folder, from the C:\ drive to the D:\
drive. I want the process to take place everyday during the week (no
weekends) at a specific time of the day. Then I want a message to "flash",
"XCOPY Of "filename" Completed at "time"...
Can/will someone direct me to a tutorial of this nature???


Thank you,

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,
I have a folder containing several files. I have 3 drives, C:\, D:\ & G:\
(Zip).
The Zip drive copies the folder at a certain of the day.
I want to do an XCOPY /V of the same folder, from the C:\ drive to the D:\
drive. I want the process to take place everyday during the week (no
weekends) at a specific time of the day. Then I want a message to "flash",
"XCOPY Of "filename" Completed at "time"...
Can/will someone direct me to a tutorial of this nature???


Thank you,

Create a scheduled task (Control Panel / Task Scheduler) and
make sure to run the task under the same account as your
foreground account.

Place your xcopy command inside a batch file like so:

@echo off
xcopy . . . .
echo.
echo %date% %time:~0,5%: XCopy completed.
echo.
pause

 

[Charles L. Phillips]

Hello,
"Thank You"...
Can you recommend a good book on writing batch files???


Thank you,

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Unfortunately not. There is an alt newsgroup with the words
"batch.nt" in the name - they might be able to recommend
something.

Note that just about all commands have inbuilt help, e.g.
xcopy /?
goto /?
if /?
set /?
call /?

 

[Dan Seur]

To add a trivial note to what Pegasus said:
A batch file is a plain text file; you can create it with notepad or any
text editor.
It may include any of the W2k commands; see Help/ Contents/ Reference/
MSDOS Commands. All syntax rules seen there apply to a BAT file.
Its filename always ends with ".bat".
When executed its behavior is exactly as you would see had you entered
those commands in that order in a command window.