BraimeeDotCom http://www.braimee.com/blog Movie reviews. Tech tips. Bad parenting. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Script to automatically move files into dated folders http://www.braimee.com/blog/2010/02/01/script-to-automatically-move-files-into-dated-folders/ http://www.braimee.com/blog/2010/02/01/script-to-automatically-move-files-into-dated-folders/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:40:40 +0000 Brian http://www.braimee.com/blog/?p=985 A lot of my clients use the built-in Windows Backup utility to do nightly file backups. The thing that makes me nervous about that is by default, the Windows Backup util will churn out one big backup file and then keep appending/overwriting it from that point on.

The paranoid guy in me goes, “Well what if one night the backup job gets corrupt and THEN the server immediately croaks and has to be rebuilt from the corrupt backup file? Unlikely, but if it happens, I’m screwed!

So after much Googlin’, I’ve hacked together a little script creates a folder with today’s date, changes to the E:\backup directory where the .bkf file gets stored, and then moves it into the folder with today’s date. That way each night of backups gets its own corresponding folder.

Simply replace E: and cd \backup with drives/directories of your choice, then save the file as name-of-script.bat. I recommend running it a few hours after the nightly backup usually completes, just to be safe.


Set MM=%date:~4,2%
Set DD=%date:~7,2%
Set YYYY=%date:~-4%
E:
cd \backup
MD %MM%-%DD%-%YYYY%
move *.bkf %MM%-%DD%-%YYYY%

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]]> http://www.braimee.com/blog/2010/01/30/the-cam-copycat-game/feed/ 0 Kung fu Cam – part 2 http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/27/kung-fu-cam-part-2/ http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/27/kung-fu-cam-part-2/#comments Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:06:57 +0000 Brian http://www.braimee.com/blog/?p=976 Here I show my love for Cam by once again beating him up with pillows.

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I don’t even know what to say.

]]> http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/25/punch-me-for-50/feed/ 1 Trick or treatin’ with Cam and Soph http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/15/trick-or-treatin-with-cam-and-soph/ http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/15/trick-or-treatin-with-cam-and-soph/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:24:29 +0000 Brian http://www.braimee.com/blog/?p=967

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]]> http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/03/dont-take-my-stuff/feed/ 0 Our trip to Afton Apple http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/02/our-trip-to-afton-apple/ http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/02/our-trip-to-afton-apple/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:04:48 +0000 Brian http://www.braimee.com/blog/?p=956 We had fun with Nate, Carrie and Hannah – picking pumpkins and breaking our tailbones on the pipe slide.

]]> http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/11/02/our-trip-to-afton-apple/feed/ 0 My road trip to Iowa with Cam http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/10/31/my-road-trip-to-iowa-with-cam/ http://www.braimee.com/blog/2009/10/31/my-road-trip-to-iowa-with-cam/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:34:56 +0000 Brian http://www.braimee.com/blog/?p=884 Recently Camdiddles and I road trip’d to Iowa. After about 17 hours I got a little bored, so I started taping some of our trip “highlights.”

(Disclaimer: my complaints about Iowa are just for entertainment purposes. I’m sure it’s a great state full of great people. You just can’t find any of them in the midst of all this corn).

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