? on .bat with exclude

[william ewald]

Good day,
I am having an issue creating a backup.bat file that has an exclude
statement. What I am trying to do is to backup the My Documents folder
off of C: while excluding the Music directory (to save space). The
backed up files are copied to the mapped H: drive. If anyone can see
where I have gone wrong please let me know. Thank you!!!

Echo
SET ExclPath="C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My
Documents\Exclude\exclude.txt"
XCOPY "C:\My Documents" /e /s /y H:/EXCLUDE: "C:\Documents and
Settings\%username%\My Documents\Exclude\exclude.txt"

Errors =
Invalid number of parameters

 

[rowe_newsgroups]

Good day,
I am having an issue creating a backup.bat file that has an exclude
statement. What I am trying to do is to backup the My Documents folder
off of C: while excluding the Music directory (to save space). The
backed up files are copied to the mapped H: drive. If anyone can see
where I have gone wrong please let me know. Thank you!!!

Echo
SET ExclPath="C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\My
Documents\Exclude\exclude.txt"
XCOPY "C:\My Documents" /e /s /y H:/EXCLUDE: "C:\Documents and
Settings\%username%\My Documents\Exclude\exclude.txt"

Errors =
Invalid number of parameters

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Well your first mistake is that you posted a vbscript question to the
Visual Basic .Net newsgroup.

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

 

[william ewald]

Thanks Seth.....and where should I post it?

Bill Ewald

 

[rowe_newsgroups]

Thanks Seth.....and where should I post it?

Bill Ewald

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I would say microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

 

[Michel Posseth [MCP]]

VBscript ????? huh ......

i call this just DOS commands , or command parameters , or Batching but
VBscript .... no

It stays O.T. for this group but however as i just one to beat myself on
the chest again for knowing the answer for this question
here it is

This should work


xcopy "C:\Documents and Settings\Bla\My Documents" "H:\Backup\Michel" /I /E
/Y /C /V /R /Z /K /H /exclude:C:\Backupexclude\excludeList.txt

in the excludeList.txt

\My Documents\Music\
\My Documents\Movies\
\My Documents\Rubish\


Regards

Michel Posseth