Comments on: Windows Batch Script To Backup Data

By: Mads

Mads — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:31:12 +0000

Can you except some files / directorys?
d:\www
but except d:\www\cache

Thanks.

By: Meego92

Meego92 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:15:00 +0000

can you help me by writing a rpogram which do the following:propose an automatic, network-based backup system for our irreplaceable data. The backup should be done on regular basis intervals every Friday at 8 of every week.
Your proposal should be easy to implement, inexpensive, powerful, reliable and documented. Assuming you have a networked windows and Linux machine ready, you should be able to use your project to set up your own automatic backup system in a short time.

By: sgd

sgd — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:28:15 +0000

I found that script very instresting as i have not done any modification in bat file but i do it in txt file but my all data gets backup in “temp” folder

Please advice

By: whatdoesitwant

whatdoesitwant — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:52:33 +0000

Do you plan on fixing this script for windows 7 or porting to powershell? Has anyone found an alternative that works on Windows 7? I’m on a x64 version.

I had fun using this script on Vista. I cannot get Jason Faulkner’s backup script to run on Windows 7 unless I run manually from an elevated prompt in the right directory. When setting the appropriate rights on the bat-file itself and just executing it, the script dies within the first few seconds. Trying every available parameter and option that i could think of, It still dies as a scheduled task in the new Windows 7 task scheduler. That sort of sucks, because I know of no other backup utility that allows me to set different times for full and incremental backups (incremental backups btw also not working on windows 7).

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:04:12 +0000

Hi, Im wondering, how can you make this script to backup only certain type files, for example only files with .doc extensions etc, is there any way? BTW that script is nice!!

By: ismashkhy

ismashkhy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:16:49 +0000

Hi, I’m a newbie in scripting, can this be possible?

source folder
\Folder1\sample.txt

destination backup folder
\Folder1\sample.txt

each time the backup is initiated, I only need the added or modified files are the only one that is copied onto the backup destination…

is this possible?, I don’t need any date or what so ever at this time of trying scripting for the first time?…

can anyone give me template script of what I want to do?..

the file to be copied is as it is…copied as original not compressed in zip or rar…

thanks in advance

By: ken

ken — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:43:01 +0000

I use this scripts, i think is pretty good. It get the job done.
Now, is there away to Exclude a files or folders?

I have few Vmware folder(BIG size) and few temp folder, which i dont want to back it up.

TY
k

By: Willem

Willem — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:35:46 +0000

I'm on a Dutch version of Windows 7 and although i don't know a thing about dos commands, I notice that the input flag is language specific. The best way to figure out the required input in your language is to run the adjusted batch script from an (elevated) command prompt and see what pops up. The original line in the script is: COPY /v /y "!Current!" "!Destination!" Paul suggests: echo 'f' | XCOPY /v /y "!Current!" "!Destination!" In my case (in Dutch) this becomes: ECHO B | XCOPY /v /y "!Current!" "!Destination!" Note that i've left out the single quotes around the input "B". The script will run with the quotes (sort of) but they're superfluous. (Please ignore any code-tags with the examples)

By: Hassan Bintook

Hassan Bintook — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:05:36 +0000

I want to do monthly backup and delete the files

Also the output file should be like xxxxxx_Mar2010.rar

Thanx

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:43:55 +0000

The BackupConfig.txt file reads the data in as literal text. It will not process environment variables.