neonjacob Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 Hello,Please help me in this. I need to automate a work at my workplace which I have to do manually everyday. Actually there is a database file which is generated every hour. Actually at a time three consecutive files are backed up- 1 each hour, and the oldest file is automatically purged. Now this whole thing is done by a software running in the machine which makes these backup files in a particular folder of the same system and there is no way to change/configure that. The file is an important file and would be needed at the time of emergency and I am afraid if the hard disk crashes, the backup files created by the software would be of no use.So for precaution, I manually copy the file to another mapped drive every hour and this particular thing is quite annoying. So please help me in this please. I am not a good programmer and therefore asking you all please please help.Now I need something that would search a particular folder in the LOCAL Computer for the latest file(file with latest time stamp or something) and copy it to a Mapped Drive or a Path over the Network. Also an additional function/script is needed here (That I intend to run on the computer where the backup is being made by this YOUR script) that would search and remove the oldest file/ file with oldest time stamp (to keep a check on the size of the folder) I will run the scripts using Scheduled Tasks which would initiate your Script every hour at a predefined time. Also I must tell you that I am a complete rookie at scripting & programming, so please If you can be kind enough to provide some description. I would run the thing on Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Server Please Help.Thanks in advance,Neonjacob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsaltyDS Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 Hello,Please help me in this. I need to automate a work at my workplace which I have to do manually everyday. Actually there is a database file which is generated every hour. Actually at a time three consecutive files are backed up- 1 each hour, and the oldest file is automatically purged. Now this whole thing is done by a software running in the machine which makes these backup files in a particular folder of the same system and there is no way to change/configure that. The file is an important file and would be needed at the time of emergency and I am afraid if the hard disk crashes, the backup files created by the software would be of no use.So for precaution, I manually copy the file to another mapped drive every hour and this particular thing is quite annoying. So please help me in this please. I am not a good programmer and therefore asking you all please please help.Now I need something that would search a particular folder in the LOCAL Computer for the latest file(file with latest time stamp or something) and copy it to a Mapped Drive or a Path over the Network. Also an additional function/script is needed here (That I intend to run on the computer where the backup is being made by this YOUR script) that would search and remove the oldest file/ file with oldest time stamp (to keep a check on the size of the folder) I will run the scripts using Scheduled Tasks which would initiate your Script every hour at a predefined time. Also I must tell you that I am a complete rookie at scripting & programming, so please If you can be kind enough to provide some description. I would run the thing on Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Server Please Help.Thanks in advance,Neonjacob Look up functions like _FileListToArray() and FileFindFirstFile()\FileFindNextFile() to list the files. Use FileGetTime() to check the last modified times. FileCopy() and FileDelete() are pretty self-explanatory.Scripts that might delete things should always be test with just a MsgBox() or something in place of the deletion for testing. Once you know it's working as designed, then you can change MsgBox() to FileDelete(). If you get stuck, post a more specific question.Just like the Waterboy, "Yew can do eet!" Valuater's AutoIt 1-2-3, Class... Is now in Session!For those who want somebody to write the script for them: RentACoder"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." -- Geek's corollary to Clarke's law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackDinn Posted April 14, 2009 Share Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) hi, i might be tempted in doing it for you as iv just about finished my current project you can have a look here Visit My Website and im kinda looking for something else to do. if you want to pm me i'll have a chat with you and see what your requiring exactly.p.s. i would suggest you have a go yourself as this sounds like a very quick entry level script and a good kinda place to start out, so as said above go on have a go "Yew can do ett" Edited April 14, 2009 by JackDinn Thx all,Jack Dinn. JD's Auto Internet Speed Tester JD's Clip Catch (With Screen Shot Helper) Projects :- AutoIt - My projects My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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