Robocopy script to move old backups to archive share

[fat_techie_virgin]

Don't flame me too hard guys as I am command line-phobic and I am new to this. Basically, I want to setup a test system before rolling out to production. I want to copy the folder structure of the backup area, and move any files contained there that are over 60 days old and are not in the folders and files I have specified. I also want to keep the file attributes regarding security and time stamps etc.

 

I have scheduled this test script and it ran, but didn't actually move anything. I would greatly appreciate help in finding out where I have gone wrong.

 

Basically, I have cannibalised various scripts I found on the internet to come out with what is below:

:START

SET robo_path="\\server1\"%RoboCopy%"
SET source_dir="\\server1\tom_temp"
SET dest_dir="\\server2\Backup_Archive"
SET log_fname="\\server2\Backup_Archive\Backup_Logs\Backup_Archive.txt"
SET what_to_copy=/COPY:DAT /MOV /B /MIR
SET exclude_dirs=/XD "banks" "colin temp"
SET exclude_files=/XF /MINAGE:60 *.tmp "vssver.scc"
SET options=/R:1 /W:1 /LOG+:%log_fname% /NFL /NDL /E /XJ

%robo_path% %source_dir% %dest_dir% %what_to_copy% %options% %exclude_dirs% %exclude_files%

[fat_techie_virgin]

Hi,

 

Good spot on the extra ".

 

I copied the rest of the first line without really knowing what it meant - i assumed % meant any (or the system) directory.

 

I changed it to

 

SET robo_path="\\server1\c$\RoboCopy.exe" but it still doesn't work :-(

[Arthur]

Here's a slightly different version of your script. Since I wasn't sure which operating system you are using I made the script look for RoboCopy.exe in the same folder as the batch file.

 

BackupArchive.cmd

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET SCRIPTPATH=%~dpnx0
SET SCRIPTDIR=%~dp0
SET SCRIPTDIR=%SCRIPTDIR:~0,-1%

:: RoboCopy Settings
SET SOURCE="\\Server1\tom_temp"
SET DESTINATION="\\Server2\Backup_Archive"
SET LOG_FNAME="\\Server2\Backup_Archive\Backup_Logs\Backup_Archive.txt"
SET WHAT_TO_COPY=/COPY:DAT /MOV /B /MIR
SET EXCLUDE_DIRS=/XD "banks" "colin temp"
SET EXCLUDE_FILES=/XF /MINAGE:60 *.tmp "vssver.scc"
SET OPTIONS=/R:1 /W:1 /LOG+:%log_fname% /NFL /NDL /E /XJ

:: Start backup
Start "" /Wait "%SCRIPTDIR%\RoboCopy.exe" %SOURCE% %DESTINATION% %WHAT_TO_COPY% %OPTIONS% %EXCLUDE_DIRS% %EXCLUDE_FILES%

[fat_techie_virgin]

Thanks to both for your assistance. Unfortunately I still could not get it to work, so I used the free technet download Robocopy.gui to start from scratch and that was actually OK. I recommend any Robocopy newbies to check it out.