Backups are important. All Staes IT web servers submit backups on a regular basis to secure offsite locations. These should run automated and reliable, without much human intervention.
Problem
These backup server receives backups via FTP each day. I don't want the next day's backup to overwrite the current ones, so have to archive them in a daily manner. It also looks nice when browsing the backups folder. Keeps everything nice and organized.
I should run a script every morning to archive those nightly backups to do the job for me.
Solution
This scripts puts all files a folder named "bu_YYYYMMDD_auto". Run this daily when the ftp backups are finished.
Since i've realized this script over 7 years ago people keep asking me how to do such a thing with batch files. So i figured i should just put it on the internet for all to see. Sorry for the delay, i only recently started this blog thing.
Back then i created two batch files to suit my needs at the time. One named "bu_shift.bat" checks if files exist with the correct extention, then creates a folder using the date, and moves all files in here. It outputs the results to the console. The other file named "bu_shift_keeplog.bat" just calls the above and puts the results in a daily logfile. Files are listed below.
It assumes the incomming files are at ./bu_ftp_up/*.gz and you could easily change that yourself.
Also keep in mind better solutions exist. This one will work out of the box and simply does its job - thats the only reason i present it here.
bu_shift.bat
Above neatly outputs results in the console.@echo off REM Run this file as a cronjob, some time after the FTP has delivered a backup.REM All folders are appended with _auto to easily distinguish them from manual backups. echo. echo **************************************************** echo * Start backup shift: echo. if not exist ".\bu_ftp_up\*.gz" GOTO NoFiles for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/- " %%A in ('date/T') do set var=%%C%%B%%A echo * Creating folder bu_%var%_auto: md "bu_%var%_auto" echo. echo * Moving files to folder: move ".\bu_ftp_up\*.*" ".\bu_%var%_auto\" echo. GOTO End :NoFiles echo * Stopped: found no files in "bu_ftp_up". echo. :End echo * End of batch echo **************************************************** echo.
When running this as a cronjob use below file to log this to aptly named files.
bu_shift_keeplog.bat
@echo off
for /F "tokens=2-4 delims=/- " %%A in ('date/T') do set logd=%%C%%B
set logfile=bu_shift_log_%logd%.txt
echo. >> %logfile%
echo bu_shift_keeplog.bat op %date%, om %time% >> %logfile%
.\bu_shift.bat >> %logfile%
echo. >> %logfile%PS - boy this Blogger editor is worth shit. Awfull code markup.
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