today dir: retrieve, store, use

External Since: Dec 13, 2007 Posts: 21

hi
I'd like to use robocopy for some automated backups
my problems:

robocopy seems not to create the destination directory, so I have to create
it before starting copy jobs
I want to create these directories with names like "YYYY_MM_DD_HHMM" (e.g.
2008_02_19_1455)

how can i retrieve these informations, transform them in one variable and
then use it for creation of the directory and next copy job?

my flow: retrieve YYYY, MM, DD, HH, MM; create YYYY_MM_DD_HHMM , store it in
a variable %todaydir%, MD \mypath\%todaydir% ; robocopy source
\mypath\%todaydir%

but... i don't know how to retrieve these values :-/

thanks for your time

External Since: Dec 22, 2007 Posts: 435

"Bertoldino" <finchelabarca.DeleteThis@efelidi.invalid> wrote in message
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> hi
> I'd like to use robocopy for some automated backups
> my problems:
>
> robocopy seems not to create the destination directory, so I have to
> create
> it before starting copy jobs
> I want to create these directories with names like "YYYY_MM_DD_HHMM" (e.g.
> 2008_02_19_1455)
>
> how can i retrieve these informations, transform them in one variable and
> then use it for creation of the directory and next copy job?
>
> my flow: retrieve YYYY, MM, DD, HH, MM; create YYYY_MM_DD_HHMM , store it
> in
> a variable %todaydir%, MD \mypath\%todaydir% ; robocopy source
> \mypath\%todaydir%
>
> but... i don't know how to retrieve these values :-/
>
> thanks for your time
>

Your observation is incorrect: robocopy.exe will happily create
the target folder if it does not exist. Try the following batch file:
@echo off
set YYYY=%date:~-4%
set mm=%date:~-7,2%
set dd=%date:~-10,2%
set hh=%time:~0,2%
set min=%time:~3,2%
robocopy d:\temp d:\%YYYY%_%mm%_%dd%_%hh%%mm% *.txt

Depending on your regional settings, you may have to modify the
offsets for mm and dd in order to get the desired mm_dd order.