Comments on: Windows Batch Script To Backup Data

By: Jason Faulker

Jason Faulker — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:36:45 +0000

I’m doing this in a couple of scripts I have on our servers, it is not very difficult.

Basically you use the FTP command in your script (this is a tool built into Windows) and then pass it a file which has the FTP server name, password and then the subsequent transfer commands each on a single line.

There are plenty of pages out there which explain how to use this, so google help regarding the Windows FTP command and the command line and you can see some examples.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:14:44 +0000

I love this script, any plans to make modifications to allow FTP upload for offsite backups?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:06:32 +0000

Wow thanks! Thank you for sharing this with me and everyone else. =)

I love this script. =D

Thank you.

By: Jason Faulkner

Jason Faulkner — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:46:11 +0000

See previous comment:
http://www.pcmech.com/article/windows-batch-script-to-backup-data/comment-page-2/#comment-19582

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:25:52 +0000

Hey this script works amazing! I was wondering tho, it does save it as a *.zip file, I was wondering if we can change the compression to “best” and have it create a *.7z file instead, is this possible to tune it up like that?

My output is 1.6gb and I wanted to compress it to make it smaller, and create it in a *.7z. Is that possible? Thanks so much!

By: sune

sune — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:43:25 +0000

im trying to use that script but only does an empty zip file…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:20:38 +0000

Thanks for this script Jason.
It seems COPY does not create the destination path for the file. Tried using XCOPY but it prompts since it doesn’t know if it needs to create a file or folder. I pipe the ‘f’ in since we know it is a file. It seems to work but there might be a better way?
COPY /v /y “!Current!” “!Destination!” —> echo ‘f’ | XCOPY /v /y “!Current!” “!Destination!”

By: Pan

Pan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:56:47 +0000

I tried your script and it works great for directories however once I try to copy a file or add a file in the list, it shows the message as follows:

The system cannot find the path specified.
0 file(s) copied.

I tried to debug it and could see that the destination path is showing as follows:

C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\backup\C\USB\backup\Test\PHPTest

The same path is for directory copying however it works perfectly but not while copying the single file.

The code which needs review is as follows:

…
FOR /f “skip=1 tokens=*” %%A IN (%filBackupConfig%) DO (
SET Current=%%~A
IF NOT EXIST “!Current!” (
ECHO ERROR! Not found: !Current!
) ELSE (
ECHO Copying: !Current!
SET Destination=%dirTempBackup%\!Current:~0,1!%%~pnxA
REM Determine if the entry is a file or directory.
IF “%%~xA”==”" (
REM Directory.
XCOPY “!Current!” “!Destination!” /v /c /i /g /h /q /r /y %swXCopy%
echo !Current!
echo seperator
echo !Destination!
echo dirend
) ELSE (
REM File.

COPY /v /y “!Current!” “!Destination!”
echo !Current!
echo seperator
echo !Destination!
)
)
)
…

Any idea?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:01:27 +0000

How do i get the script to only back up the previous 7 days files. I want it to look at the date modify date

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:58:15 +0000

Use xcopy /d with no argument to copy all updated files.