Comments on: Free and Easy Daily Backup Solution

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:10:31 +0000

Nice script. Where can I find a good reference for batch file programming on NT?

By: Jared0x90

Jared0x90 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:57:08 +0000

no clue i had to dig up bits and pieces from all around the net

By: MWare

MWare — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:20:17 +0000

http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batchfiles.html

http://help.fdos.org./en/index.htm

I know because I had to change the time parsing line to the following 3 lines (I guess my cmd.exe time format was slightly different):

for /f “tokens=1-2 delims=: ” %%e in (’time /t’) do (set hour=%%e& set minute=%%f)
SET AMPM=%minute:~2,1%
SET minute=%minute:~0,2%

By: Jared0x90

Jared0x90 — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:24:19 +0000

MWare do you have the US/English version of Windows or are you in 24 hour time format or something odd? It is weird that it didn’t work. I have been using my parsing method on a number of machines now for various things. Also are you on 2000/XP/XP 64/2003??

By: MWare

MWare — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:54:19 +0000

Yes, using US/English version of Win2000 pro.

Not set in 24hour format…

When I type >time /t on my command line I get
“3:51p”
(No colon between the ‘1′ and the ‘p’… so it cannot delimit the min from the AMPM).

By: Jared0x90

Jared0x90 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:07:01 +0000

Interesting thanks for the info! Hopefully people will read these comments. I’ll put a note to read comments from MWare

By: Jared0x90

Jared0x90 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:01:13 +0000

I created a link here from the main menu as this is one of the more popular and useful posts

By: Jared0x90

Jared0x90 — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:12:05 +0000

I recently revisited this idea and made some changes to save on space. The portion of code I backup everday went from 17MB down to 6MB! The new version is also multithreaded for multicore/multiprocessor machines (though I tell you how to disable it for single core/cpu systems. View version 2 above.