[DecafJava]

How can I automatically have data get copied from a shared drive onto a specified local folder on my machine, say once a week? Is there a MSDOS batch script (hopefully with a few lines) that can accomplish this?

Thanks...

[modi123_1]

Sure - a qbasic app can be set to a scheduled task (control panel in windows) to run at a given time for ever!

the batch scripts are pretty easy - do you know how to write the command out yourself in a command window?

[DecafJava]

modi123_1, on 24 March 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

Sure - a qbasic app can be set to a scheduled task (control panel in windows) to run at a given time for ever!

the batch scripts are pretty easy - do you know how to write the command out yourself in a command window?

Not really, but definitely willing to learn! If you can point me to a specific resource with an example to do exactly that, I would greatly appreciate it!

[DecafJava]

DecafJava, on 24 March 2011 - 01:33 PM, said:

modi123_1, on 24 March 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

Sure - a qbasic app can be set to a scheduled task (control panel in windows) to run at a given time for ever!

the batch scripts are pretty easy - do you know how to write the command out yourself in a command window?

Not really, but definitely willing to learn! If you can point me to a specific resource with an example to do exactly that, I would greatly appreciate it!

I just checked out the Task Scheduler in Windows and I see this is pretty straight forward to set up. However, I'm not sure how the app should be written. Should I just look up a regular COPY command in the batch script language and that should do??

[modi123_1]

What part "not really"? The making of scheduled tasks? DOS command lines? QBASIC?

[DecafJava]

modi123_1, on 24 March 2011 - 01:39 PM, said:

What part "not really"? The making of scheduled tasks? DOS command lines? QBASIC?

Scheduled Tasks is pretty straight forward, just figured it out. What I suffer with is writing the script itself. Here is what I have so far and it doesn't seem to work:

I would like everything inside folder a to get copied to folder b:

(In a file called backup.bat)

@echo off

copy "%userprofile%\John\Desktop\a" "%userprofile%\John\Desktop\b"

And I already setup a scheduled task to run this backup.bat every week (but of course the way I'm testing out the script to see if it works is just by manually double-clicking the bat file and having it run).

DecafJava, on 24 March 2011 - 01:52 PM, said:

modi123_1, on 24 March 2011 - 01:39 PM, said:

What part "not really"? The making of scheduled tasks? DOS command lines? QBASIC?

Scheduled Tasks is pretty straight forward, just figured it out. What I suffer with is writing the script itself. Here is what I have so far and it doesn't seem to work:

I would like everything inside folder a to get copied to folder b:

(In a file called backup.bat)

@echo off

copy "%userprofile%\John\Desktop\a" "%userprofile%\John\Desktop\b"

And I already setup a scheduled task to run this backup.bat every week (but of course the way I'm testing out the script to see if it works is just by manually double-clicking the bat file and having it run).

Oh! I figured it out.

@echo off

copy "%userprofile%\Desktop\a" "%userprofile%\Desktop\b"

Took out the "John" username, since that's already included in the userprofile var!

[modi123_1]

Wow.. pretty quick, eh?

[DecafJava]

modi123_1, on 24 March 2011 - 03:01 PM, said:

Wow.. pretty quick, eh?

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with Windows Task Scheduler. That's exactly what I needed!

[DecafJava]

Will this copying feature also work for two shared drives that my current machine is connected to (assuming I already have the Map Network Drive stuff setup and can easily access both drives from my machine)??

[modi123_1]

shouldn't be a problem. Mapping drives makes it so they are like local ones.

[DecafJava]

modi123_1, on 24 March 2011 - 03:20 PM, said:

shouldn't be a problem. Mapping drives makes it so they are like local ones.

Thanks again!!