Comments on: Simple batch file backup

By: phil

phil — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:08:33 +0000

You should mention that you need to put the 7z.exe in the same directory where your *.bat file is located.

By: Sohail

Sohail — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:49:39 +0000

thanx for the code.. hey man u are gr8 ..but i haev one more query?
1. can we get the backup with time stamp and remove the older files?
i mean instead of backup1.. can we have something like “backup_05june2008″
“backup_12june2008″
“backup_19june2008″
“backup_26june2008″
then
backup_05june2008 should be deleted adn replaced by backup_2july2008

can we get some suggestions

By: william

william — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:49:52 +0000

Thanks for the pointers. Couple of notes worth mentioning.

1) Rename and Delete are really ren and del when one actually writes the script (or according to the documentation that I could find and what actually worked for me)

2) your backup script has a bit of a flaw.
I’d suggest this instead (rough draft)
create newbackup.zip
del 3
rename 1 and 2
rename new to 1
ftp 1

this way, if for some reason your backup fails, the batch will stop executing and you’ll still have something as a backup. Otherwise, you’ll be deleting and renaming before the script fails at the backup (and the subsequent upload). You’d hate to come back from a two week holiday with no backups.

By: DannyT

DannyT — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:27:11 +0000

srinivas, the code above DOES upload a file to FTP. Re-read the section titled “FTP Script”

By: srinivas

srinivas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:23:19 +0000

HI, I want to creat abatch file to up load a file to ftp.
please help me

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:01:16 +0000

This is good stuff… Thanks!