The following batch script below, copies a folder to a folder. The folder is created with a name according to date that the script is run. The script will output a log file of the operation – files which were copied will be logged.
This script is intended only for WINDOWS machines. (XP and above)
Step 1
Click on Start > Run.
Enter cmd and press the enter key
Step 2
In the black window that opened write:
# EDIT BACKUP.BAT
The backup.bat is the name of the file that we created .
Step 3
In the blue screen that we just opened copy and paste the following (each line without the # mark):
# FOR /F “TOKENS=1 DELIMS= ” %%A IN (‘date/T’) DO SET CDATE=%%B
# FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (‘date/T’) DO SET mm=%%B
# FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/” %%A IN (‘echo %CDATE%’) DO SET dd=%%B
# FOR /F “TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (‘echo %CDATE%’) DO SET yyyy=%%B
# SET date=%dd%-%mm%-%yyyy%
# md C:\%date%
# copy “c:\folder_name\.” c:\%date%>>c:\LogFile.txt
echo %date% %time%>>c:\LogFile.txt
Let’s explain the code above:
EXPLANATION 1
# FOR /F “TOKENS=1 DELIMS= ” %%A IN (‘date/T’) DO SET CDATE=%%B
# FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (‘date/T’) DO SET mm=%%B
# FOR /F “TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/” %%A IN (‘echo %CDATE%’) DO SET dd=%%B
# FOR /F “TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ ” %%A IN (‘echo %CDATE%’) DO SET yyyy=%%B
# SET date=%dd%-%mm%-%yyyy%
# md c:\%date%
All of this sequence is actually a command to open a library if
the correct date for the day .
EXPLANATION 2
# copy “c:\folder_name*.*” c:\%date%
This is the command that copy the files in to the date folder (the backup folder).
EXPLANATION 2-A
folder_name is the folder that you want to copy from him
%date% is the folder with the correct day to copy the files that we want to backup .
EXPLANATION 3
# >>c:\logFile.txt
# echo %date% %time%>>c:\LogFile.txt
This is a LOG file that contain the names of all the files that we copy and also the time and date that the backup was runs.
I wrote this script for a friend of mine for backup of folders in his father’s business.
