Automated copy and paste batch job using DOS batch file?

net4hack

I have a backup folder location where backups are stored. I need to copy the backup files to a NAS drive folder every day. Would a DOS batch file run using Windows task scheduler do this?

Is there any other way to do this?

Would you please post the code for doing this here.

Any help greatly appreciated.

srsly78

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy

TheBoffin

Create a batch file with the following code and edit to taste.
I always recommend using the /log switch in case of problems.

robocopy x:\sourcefolder y:\destinationfolder /log:batchlog.txt

Obviously test your batch file on a non critical folder set, e.g. create folders and copy some files in to test

net4hack

Thanks. Is there any way to delete the source files after the copy process has been completed. The backup files are about 10GB.

net4hack

Also I need to rename each backup file with the date of the backup.

TheBoffin

Try the following

robocopy x:\source y:\%date% /mov

This produces a file structure of y:\date\month\year\....files so you would need to clear the destination directory each month

net4hack

The every day backup files need to be moved to a folder with that days date. I used the following command

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set mydate=%date:~6,4%%date:~3,2%%date:~0,2%

robocopy "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\test" "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\%mydate%" /move /E /log:batchlog.txt

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So idealy this should create a folder like 20131216 and move the directories and files to this folder. But this doesnt happen if I include the set date command. See attached picture. If I run the second command alone it works fine. So is there any way I could run both command in a batch file.