good day,

i have a batch file that i have made slowly over the past months to do backups, with help from here, and several other websites. i want to update the batch file to backup up some other FOLDERS but only need that part of the batch file to run if it is the last day of the month.

ex. currently i back up C:\DOCS every day. But if it's the last day of the month, i want it to back up C:\TOSHIBA along with the C:\DOCS folder. can that be done, or is it easier to write the code to do it on the first of the month (last day of the month varies as ending on the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st.

I was thinking just write another batch and run it on the first of every month to do the monthly backup, but the daily backup creats a log file, and when that back up is done, it reboots the system. i do not want the system to reboot while the monthly backup is still being performed.

any ideas?

jat
This combination of VB Scripting and batch commands should do what you want. The VB script gets tomorrow's day-of-month number and passes it to the FOR command which sets the NewDay variable. Should be run on the last day of each month. I have done some testing in XP but you should confirm...

Quote

@ECHO off
cls

set vbsfile=%temp%\newdate.vbs

echo Newdate = (Date()+1)>%vbsfile%
echo Dd = DatePart("D" , Newdate)>>%vbsfile%

echo Wscript.Echo Dd>>%vbsfile%

FOR /F %%A in ('cscript //nologo %vbsfile%') do (
set NewDay=%%A
)
del %vbsfile%

echo %NewDay%

IF %NewDay% NEQ 1 GOTO Docs

{backup commands for C:\TOSHIBA here}

:Docs
{backup commands for C:\DOCS here}

Code: [Select]if exist ME del ME
Mshta VBScript:Execute("If Month(Now)<>Month(DateAdd(""d"",1,Now)) Then CreateObject(""Scripting.FileSystemObject"").CreateTextFile(""ME""):End If:Close")

if not exist ME goto Docs
del ME
{backup commands for C:\TOSHIBA here}

:Docs
{backup commands for C:\DOCS here}

any suggestions?

thank you,

jat