Backing up Folders

[kunaljadhav]

Hello,

I am trying to create a batch file which will take back up of my folders in destination location in date wise folder.
But when I try to run the commands in sequence one by one in cmd it works as per requirement but if I try to collect all commands in batch file it gives error.
I am using date as a variable to create folder in destination location and there the problem in my syntax.

Please see below batch for details and let me know suitable solution for this.

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@echo off

Rem Change the directory to take backup as required below and also update the sourse location as required

set Source=C:\TEMP\INPUT\TEST

set destination=C:\TEMP\OUTPUT

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %d in ("%date%") do set Today=%e-%f-%g /n
echo %Today%
mkdir %destination%\%Today%

xcopy %Source% %destination%\%Today% /e /i /h

Best regards

Kunal Jadhav

[Squashman]

From the FOR command help file.

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To use the FOR command in a batch program, specify %%variable instead
of %variable.  Variable names are case sensitive, so %i is different
from %I.

[kunaljadhav]

Thank you for reply.
But I was using the command in similar command before but was giving me error as below

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do set Today=%%e-%%f-%%g
%%d was unexpected at this time.

So I tried using single % and I went through.

Please note I want to create a batch file which will help to create folder with date and take backup of files.

Also I want to use this date variable to append same with time variable and create other folder depending upon current time and write files inside it.

Best regards

Kunal Jadhav

[Squashman]

But I was using the command in similar command before but was giving me error as below

for /f "tokens=1-5 delims=/ " %%d in ("%date%") do set Today=%%e-%%f-%%g
%%d was unexpected at this time.

So I tried using single % and I went through.

Correct. You cannot use two percent symbols when running the command from the cmd prompt. You can only use one. You use two when running from a batch file. The help file seems pretty clear so I am not sure what you are still having problems with.