Hi there I use XCOPY to backup all files from my computer to an external hard disk. Currently, it is always to the same folder (X:\backup) with only newer files being updated. I would like to improve my backups by creating a new backup folder for each date I run the backup batch file - e.g. X:\10-07-08-backup or something similar, and then dump a complete copy of everything I backup using xcopy (c:\documents and settings) into the folder with that date. How? Thanks!

Something like this? @echo off set month=%date:~4,2% set day=%date:~7,2% set year=%date:~10,4% set dir="C:\Documents and Settings\SomeUser\stuff" echo %year% xcopy %dir%\*.* %month%-%day%-%year%-backup\ /q

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion call :YMD8 && cls echo xcopy /s "c:\documents and settings" x:\%dat%-%month%-%year%\ goto :eof ::====== YMD8 ========== :YMD8 @echo off > d.d >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAY.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo 8 >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 F0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N MONTH.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 89 C8 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N YEAR.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo E 0100 B4 2A CD 21 88 D0 B4 4C CD 21 >> d.d echo N DAT.COM >> d.d echo RCX >> d.d echo A >> d.d echo W >> d.d echo Q debug < d.d > nul del d.d dat for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31) do if errorlevel %%a set dat=%%a echo Date %dat% day if errorlevel 0 set day=Sunday if errorlevel 1 set day=Monday if errorlevel 2 set day=Tuesday if errorlevel 3 set day=Wednesday if errorlevel 4 set day=Thursday if errorlevel 5 set day=Friday if errorlevel 6 set day=Saturday echo Day %day% month for %%a in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) do if errorlevel %%a set month=0%%a for %%a in ( 10 11 12) do if errorlevel %%a set month=%%a echo Month %month% year if errorlevel 215 set Year=2007 if errorlevel 216 set Year=2008 if errorlevel 217 set Year=2009 if errorlevel 218 set Year=2010 echo Year %Year% del day.com del month.com del year.com del dat.com ::== DONE ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi, unfortunately using the %date% command as the variable on most O/S's using '/' (forward slashes) which aren't a valid folder name. So I would reccomend that before you run the XCOPY command, you create a folder like below... mkdir %date:~0,2%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~7,4% It looks a bit complicated, but it's basically filtering the output from the %date% system variable. For example, If i do Echo %date% on my system, the output is 21/07/2008 so the first part %date:~0,2% Is the %date% variable but only the 1st and second number (0 = first number, and I want the first 2 numbers, hence the ,2) So your script would look similar to this @echo off Echo Backing up Files!!! mkdir %date:~0,2%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~7,4% XCOPY C:\Files to Backup USB:\%date:~0,2%-%date:~3,2%-%date:~7,4% It doesn't matter what date you run it on, the files will go into a folder for the current date. :)

That will work if you have guessed the date layout correctly. That's why I get the date from BIOS. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Pagey. Did you read my post? I don't get the point of basically duplicating answers.