Windows 7: ROBOCOPY - Create Backup Script

I'll have a look around and see what I can find. Thanks.

Imaging using something like Macrium would probably be a better option.

Yeah, but I'm not willing to pay for macrium and the free version doesn't let you exclude folders or backup certain folders.

Dear Experts,

I have robocopy running continuously to mirror a folder every X hours. The windows 2008R2 server running the code is set to start the script at startup. Everything appears to be working fine, except the log files are becoming to be gigs big (too big to open with notepad, etc). I can manually stop the process, rename the log file, then the restart the process, but I am looking for a way to programmatically limit the size of the log file. Is this possible? Thanks!

-GH

Hi,

Unfortunately, its not possible to limit the size of the logfile - that would defeat the purpose of the the logfile : to log everything it does.

A workaround might be to write to a new logfile every X hours, so you write to several different named logfiles during the course of a day. Perhaps using the date to name the logfile, like this?

Regards,
Golden

Hi all,

I´ve create a .bat file with the help of this tutorial, to make a backup of a directorie to my Skydrive account, this is the script.

robocopy.exe "C:\Radio\DXLab" "C:\Users\userid\SkyDrive\Radio\DXLab Backups\teste" /e /mir /np /z /tee /log:backup_log.txt

Now what I was trying to do is:

Inside DXLab directorie is an Folder - Luncher, with an Luncher.exe, that lunches 7 applications, and when I terminate the Luncher.exe it terminates all 7 applications.

Now what I wanna do is when Luncher.exe close, the Backup.bat will make the backup of that session.

I've already converted .bat to .exe and the script works good.

Any ideia on how to do this.

Thanks.