I need a bat file to run every 5 minutes and copy only the new/modified files. each time the script runs its to place the files in a new folder by date and time. I already have a script (xcopy) that copies the files and places them in separate folders by date and time. The problem is that I am getting all all files, not just the new/modified ones. Please help

:loop xcopy src dest\/d ping 0.0.0.1 -n 1 -w 300000 goto :loop ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

Thanks for the reply, but doesn't the /d string only work if you are copying to the same destination folder. In my case I need each 5mins copy to be a copy to a separate location. Is there a command to say copy the last 5 minutes data?

xcopy /m ===================================== Helping others achieve escape felicity M2

How exactly does this work and is it different from /M?

it seems like you could use m2's code, then create the timestamp directory then copy all the files into the newly created timestamp dir. setlocal enabledelayedexpansion :loop xcopy src dest\/d ping 0.0.0.1 -n 1 -w 300000 set d=%date% set d=!d:~10,4!!d:~4,2!!d:~7,2! set t=%time% :just use hour and minutes, if no need for sec.s set t=!t:~0,2!!t:~3,2! :for seconds, replace above with below :set t=!t:~0,2!!t:~3,2!!t:~6,2! set newdir=!d!!t! md !newdir! copy dest\*.* !newdir! goto :loop leave the items in 'dest', as they will be needed for xcopy to validate the file's modified times against. new directory created every 5 minutes as yyyymmddhhmm

I need each 5 mins update in its own time stamped directory. Correct me if I am wrong, but your code has all files in one directory