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Name: William Lockie (by blockie)
I am anxious to learn how to date stamp backup files. Presently the backup program I am using backs up to a file using the same name, thereby overwriting yesterdays file . I wind up with only the last backup made.
I would like to append the date, in mm/dd/yy format, to the file name created. This way each backup would have a unique name and I could have more than one backup.
I am, otherwise, satisfied with this backup program so please do not recommend another program as your answer. Just show me how to do this.
Thanks,
BillExisting filename........TEST.TXT
New filename.............TEST_05/22/08.TXTWilliam Lockie
"OS: WXP SP2
CPU/Ram: 3.0/2GB
Manufacturer/Model: clone"
Instead of renaming the file, can you have the backup program save all the days backups to a new 'dated' folder for each day?
You are very wise to have multiple backups.
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Is the program name a secret? Might it help us to know it's name?
I would suggest ntbackup but I don't know if you are using that.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10
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The program name is not a secret. It is DriveImage XML from Runtime Software.
I have customized it so that I can run it from a batch file and then I put it in the Windows scheduler.
Here's the script in the batch file;"C:\Program Files\Runtime Software\DriveImage XML\dixml.exe" /bc /tD:\Images\Drive_C /r- /s- /c /v
Hope this helps.
Bill
PS: Drive_c in the above script is the filename generated during backup.William Lockie
"OS: WXP SP2
CPU/Ram: 3.0/2GB
Manufacturer/Model: clone"
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Ok Razor2.3.
Lets do it with Test_052208,text. I really don't care as long as I can see the difference from day to day and not overwrite the old file.
BillWilliam Lockie
"OS: WXP SP2
CPU/Ram: 3.0/2GB
Manufacturer/Model: clone"
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You'll need a multiline batch file. This should do the trick. I found the code for everything but the last line from someone named seamonkey420.
The last line will change to a directory called d:\imagesMMDDYYYY (for example d:\images05282008).
If your backup software doesn't create directories automatically you'll need to add the line "mkdir d:\images%date%" before the command that actually runs the backup software.
echo on
@REM Seamonkey's quick date batch (MMDDYYYY format)
@REM Setups %date variable
@REM First parses month, day, and year into mm , dd, yyyy formats and then combines to be MMDDYYYYFOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET CDATE=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 eol=/ DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET mm=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=1,2 DELIMS=/ eol=/" %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET dd=%%B
FOR /F "TOKENS=2,3 DELIMS=/ " %%A IN ('echo %CDATE%') DO SET yyyy=%%B
SET date=%mm%%dd%%yyyy%echo D:\Images%date%\Drive_C
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Oops, sorry, the last line should be:
C:\Program Files\Runtime Software\DriveImage XML\dixml.exe" /bc /tD:\Images%date%\Drive_C /r- /s- /c /v
I was using the echo command to test the batch file
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To avoid the can of worms involved with date layouts...
This will sequentially number them.
::== seqNtest.bat
:: seq num backups@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansionif not exist test.txt echo nothing to do && goto :eof
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d/od test_*.txt') do (
set str=%%~Na
set /a N=!str:~5!
)set /a N+=1
ren test.txt test_!N!.txt
::== doneHi Razor2.3,
yep no slashes, no stars and bars, no redirects etc
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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FOR Mechanix2Go
Here it is the modified, for me, the batch file you provided. It does NOT work. At least it does not work after I modified it.
It did work in its original form when I created a test.txt in the same folder as the batch file.
My backup files are on another drive as you can see by the changes I made,
I do not know what the parameters mean after
"dir/b/". This may be the problem. I will continue to work on it,but I hope you are able to detect the error and show me the TRUE way.
Bill@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion
if not exist D:\DriveImage\drive_c.dat echo nothing to do && goto :eof
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/a-d/od D:\DriveImage\drive_*.dat') do (
set str=%%~Na
set /a N=!str:~5!
)
set /a N+=1
ren D:\DriveImage\drive_c.dat D:\DriveImage\drive-c_!N!.dat
ren D:\DriveImage\drive_c.xml D:\DriveImage\drive_c_!N!.xmlWilliam Lockie
"OS: WXP SP2
CPU/Ram: 3.0/2GB
Manufacturer/Model: clone"
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It's not obvious what's going wrong. You can eliminate some clutter and make the troubleshooting easier by changing to the directory where the files are.
::==
@echo off
setLocal EnableDelayedExpansionpushd D:\DriveImage
if not exist... blah blah
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If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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