Automatic Backup To Run Only Once Daily

[burton]

hi

I have my backup done automatically upon each start-up with XCOPY.

REM 30 sec delay

REM TYPE NUL | CHOICE.COM /N /CY /TY,30 >NUL

@echo off

xcopy "c:\officefiles\*.*" d:\BACKUP\ /c /s /r /d /y /i > d:\BACKUP\Main\xcopy.log

REM copy Outlook data

xcopy "D:\Programme\Microsoft Office\archive.pst" d:\BACKUP\Outlook /c /s /r /d /y /i >> d:\BACKUP\Outlook\xcopy.log

The above is saved as a BATCH-file (*.bat) and added to the Autostart-folder.

How can Auto-It check the last backup date beforehand and if it coincides with the 'today's date' which is already saved on my harddisk, to then skip the backup?

Could someone please post me the solution?

[Jos]

hi

I have my backup done automatically upon each start-up with XCOPY.

The above is saved as a BATCH-file (*.bat) and added to the Autostart-folder.

How can Auto-It check the last backup date beforehand and if it coincides with the 'today's date' which is already saved on my harddisk, to then skip the backup?

Could someone please post me the solution?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Write a script that:

Uses the @year & @yday and check this against an inifile or registry entry

if different run backup and save to this inifile or registry entry

Something like this (Untested):

If @YEAR & @YDAY <> INIREAD(@ScriptDir & "\my.ini","Backup","LastRun","") Then   
   Run("yourbackup coomand)
   IniWrite(@ScriptDir & "\my.ini","Backup","LastRun", @YEAR & @YDAY)
EndIf

[Bartokv]

Considering that you're using the CHOICE command, I'm assuming that you're not using Windows NT/2000. Assuming that you're not using DOS 6.22, perhaps the easiest way would be to utilize Window's Scheduler to maintain the task. (You could also code the batch file to only run once per day by placing the last-run date within a flag file.)

But to answer your question, you could use a combination of FileGetTime and an assortment of the Date related macros within AutoIt to check the modification timestamp of the log file, and launch the batch file accordingly. Honestly though, if you're wanting to use some of AutoIt's functionality, you might as well just port the entire batch file into a single AutoIt script.

Hope this helps.