backup datas

[parthi_75]

here is my doubt.,
iam working in WIN Nt environment , @ present now iam takeing backup for all the data files in each system by browseing thru the network neighbourhood folder. The files will be zipped from a shared folder of a system in a single hard disk. Now my Question is, Is there any utilities, or s/w or any simple codes for the above said, postings will be helpful, pls help
thanks
parthi

[plenderj]

I do a similar thing. Except I do it from dos.
If you install the Winzip Command Line Interface application, then you can write a batch file to do it.

This is what the batch file looks like for backing up data from our server :

@echo Backing up original ...
@if not exist c:\Backup mkdir c:\backup
@if exist c:\Backup\Take5Yesterday.zip move c:\Backup\Take5Yesterday.zip c:\Backup\Take5DayBeforeYesterday.zip
@if exist c:\Backup\ActYesterday.zip move c:\Backup\ActYesterday.zip c:\Backup\ActDayBeforeYesterday.zip
@if exist c:\Backup\UsersYesterday.zip move c:\Backup\UsersYesterday.zip c:\Backup\UsersDayBeforeYesterday.zip

@echo Compressing \\ntserver\company\t5p25\*.*
@c:\progra~1\Winzip\wzzip -rp -ex c:\Backup\Take5Yesterday.zip \\ntserver\company\t5p25\*.*
@echo Compressing \\ntserver\company\Everyman Database\*.*
@c:\progra~1\Winzip\wzzip -rp -ex c:\Backup\ActYesterday.zip \\ntserver\company\everym~2\*.*
@echo Compressing \\ntserver\users\*.*
@c:\progra~1\Winzip\wzzip -rp -ex c:\Backup\UsersYesterday.zip \\ntserver\users\*.*

@echo Finished !

I wrote it myself. All you'd have to do is change the path names etc. to suit your network.

[plenderj]

First off, I'm jamie. Craft is just the game I wrote.

And secondly if you write it all into a batch file, you can use the task scheduler in windows, or use the Shell statement from VB.

Eg.

Shell "c:\backup.bat", vbNormalFocus