Would like to backup(xcopy) files to a different directory for each day of the week. Batch file needs to determine day(Sunday-Saturday)automatically, and then copy data files from the application working directory to the appropriate day's backup directory.

The first hump to get over is getting the DAY into a variable for use by the backup bat. This will get DAY, DATE and TIME into varibles. :: DtimeDOS.bat @echo off echo.|date>datevar.bat echo.|time>timevar.bat echo set DATEvar=%%4>current.ba call datevar echo set DAYvar=%%3>current.ba call datevar echo set TIMEvar=%%3>current.ba call timevar :: done Note that it may need to be tailored becase the output of the DATE & TIME will vary according to version, language, codepage etc. Once you get that hammered out: cd c:\appdata xcopy . c:\DAYvar\ If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

M2, Many thanks for the help. Looks like that will get the date up in a numerical format ok. Any ideas on how to translate that to day of the week, ie; Sunday, Monday, etc. I want to have seven backup directories so I can have a rolling week of backups? EGB

I saw this site the other day - he uses a program called XSET to simplify the process - seems to be what you're seeking. If the xset link isn't working, try FileLibrary Do Not Click

Hi Put the Weekday.com code into a text file. Put a blank line after the last Q. Save it as Weekday.scr then enter this on the command line. debug < Weekday.scr this creates Weekday.com Create the second batch file and modify the "echo it's" to the code required for the day of the week. --------------------------- N WEEKDAY.COM A 100 MOV AH,2A INT 21 MOV AH,4C INT 21 R CX 8 W Q -------------------------- @echo off weekday.com if errorlevel 0 if not errorlevel 1 goto Sunday if errorlevel 1 if not errorlevel 2 goto Monday if errorlevel 2 if not errorlevel 3 goto Tuesday if errorlevel 3 if not errorlevel 4 goto Wednesday if errorlevel 4 if not errorlevel 5 goto Thursday if errorlevel 5 if not errorlevel 6 goto Friday if errorlevel 6 goto Saturday :Sunday echo It's Sunday goto Done :Monday echo It's Monday goto Done :Tuesday echo It's Tuesday goto Done :Wednesday echo It's Wednesday goto Done :Thursday echo It's Thursday goto Done :Friday echo It's Friday goto Done :Saturday echo It's Saturday :Done

Wow!!! You guys are really great. DOS still lives. Thanks again. EGB

As per #1: "Note that it may need to be tailored becase the output of the DATE & TIME will vary according to version, language, codepage etc." If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2