ROBOCOPY - Create Backup Script

Hello Golden,

I want to backup my PC D-drive 5 times in a week to my network drive. Could you please write a script to achieve this. Below is my requirement.

--Everyday full backup
-- Want to retain the last 5 days backups
-- script should create directory everyday and take the backup into that directory
-- It should delete the directory, if the days exceeds more than 5.
-- It should have only last five days backup

Please help me.

Many thanks in advance.

Thanks & Best Regards,
SRAMB1

Golden, it works great if I double click on the .bat file, but when I try using task scheduler it is failing. I've looked through the tutorial you referenced, but still no go.

Systems are on domain, bat file has been place on C drive and on user's Desktop, but am currently getting 0x3 as last run result when testing (although the script does appear to run).

robocopy c:\users\username \\servername\share\username /e np /tee /mt /XA:SH /XF Recycler* /r:3 /w:10 /XJ /XD AppData

Any thoughts? Today we are supposed to "go live" with this, and I just found the bug.

Golden said:

Hi,

Mmm, I don't know to be perferfectly honest.......have you tried excluding that using wildcards?

XF = exclude file

/XF RECYCLER* or whatever the recycler is called?

Regards,
Golden

Had same problem, cause i used notepad, and then renamed to *.bat for my script.

did a new blank page in notepadd++, copied the script into that, saved it as a bat file in notepadd++ and viola, script was working as intended.

Now i don't get this continous rolling in a prompt anymore :)


actually, just made a account here, JUST to tell you that :)

Is this just the same as Microsoft's "SyncToy2"??

Thanks a lot, Golden! Very helpful.