Xcopy help

[UKITC]

Hi all,

Need a bit of help with some Xcopy work I am doing. I have got an xcopy job that runs and it fine, outputs the copy results to a text file and I am happy with how it is working.

I want to change the job now though. instead of over-writing the destination folder eachtime, if possible I want to job to create a new folder. here is the tricky bit, I want it to put the date in the new folder name. And then I want to run the job each day and the date to change accordingly.

anybody got any ideas??

 

[jrbarnett]

Use something like:

SET FOLDER=%DATE:~4,4%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~10,4%
MD %FOLDER%
XCOPY sourcefile destfile /s > %FOLDER%\output.log
SET FOLDER=

-Note that my setup is for UK dates, you will need to switch the day and month over to retrieve US format dates.

John

 

[UKITC]

ok I changed it to include my sourcefile and destfile but there was no file copy.....

SET FOLDER=%DATE:~4,4%%DATE:~7,2%%DATE:~10,4%
MD %FOLDER%
XCOPY D:\DATA\MANCHESTER\ J:\MANCHESTER BACKUP /S >%FOLDER%\OUTPUT.LOG
SET FOLDER=

I'm very new to this xCopy game......

 

[derajer]

I run a similar procedure for backup, this is what I do:

for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/- " %%A in ('date/T') do set var= %%A%%B%%C

md %var%

cd %var%

xcopy e:\fcns8001 /e /h

 

[UKITC]

can you please explain that to me?