help with another batch file

[apocalypse11]

Hello everyone... i have some questions about a batch file that does a copy to another folder with the date. please see below:

@echo off
:: variables
set drive=C:\Folder
set folder=%date%
set backupcmd=xcopy /s /c /d /e /h /i /r /k /y

echo ### Backing up directory...
%backupcmd% "C:\somedirectory" "%drive%\%folder%"

echo Backup Complete!
@pause

Questions:
1. When this batch file runs, it creates a folder with the Day, Day number, subfolder Month, subfolder year, then subfolder copy of "set drive". How can i make it so that the date is just one folder and a subfolder of what is being copied to it?
2. How can i modify this batch job to send a message to another pc via ip address to say "that the job has finish succesfully" if it completes; or that it failed if it returns error messages?

Thanks...

 

[stduc]

If you have the messenger service running on all machines then you can use the net send command.

net send [Machine Name or IP address] Message

e.g.

net send 192.168.0.10 "Job completed successfully"

or

net send Fred "Job completed successfully"

Another option would be to have the job create a file with the message on the other machine. On the message receiving machine create a scheduler entry that runs a batch file every x minutes that looks for that file and if it is present, display it and then delete it.

e.g.

if exist message.txt goto display
exit
:display
notepad message.txt
del message.txt
exit

Crude but should do what you require.

 

[ASG0856]

In answer to your second question, I think Net send would fullfil your requirement

Net send 'the pc name' 'the message'

 

[apocalypse11]

Hi & thanks for the tips...

also, i found the answer to question 1:

add this line
FOR /F "TOKENS=2-4 DELIMS=/ " %%a IN ("%date%") DO SET dd=%%a&SET mm=%%b&SET yy=%%c

and change this line to
set folder=%dd%-%mm%-%yy%