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9.2

Compressing output file after backup

Asked by naughtynat in DriveCopy, VB Script, Windows XP Operating System

Tags: robocopy, compress, vbs

Below is the backup script that I have setup and it seems to do the job pretty good.

only issue is that the output txt file can sometimes be quite large with a few thousand enteries.

I was wondering if someone could help with the following as I would like to compress the output text file.

part of the ms server 2003 res kit has compress.exe which does the trick

from command line you can run

compress -s -z c:\Customername.txt c:\Customername.tx_

what I need to be able to do is:

know what I need to do to run it within the vbscript
I havent tried but just wondering if I put the full if this would work as would need to work so can utilise all the same names
compress -s -z C:\CUSTOMERNAME" & right("0" & month(date),2) & "-" & right("0" & day(date),2) & "-" & year(date) & ".txt" C:\CUSTOMERNAME" & right("0" & month(date),2) & "-" & right("0" & day(date),2) & "-" & year(date) & ".tx_"
would then just need to change that the output file that is sent is the .tx_ one. Would also be good if it was easy to delete the intial TXT file, but that isnt important.

Main reason for this is basically you get about 85% compression on the files.

I would be running this script on Server 2003, WinXP & Vista

Many thanks for your assistance

Cheers
nat 
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dim objShell
dim strTarget, strDest, strParameter, strRoboExe
set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
strTarget = "e:\TARGETLOCATION"
strDest = "c:\BACKINGUPFROMLOCATION"
strParameter = "/S  /PURGE /TS /FP /NP /TEE /XJ /R:1 /W:2 /LOG:C:\CUSTOMERNAME" & right("0" & month(date),2) & "-" & right("0" & day(date),2) & "-" & year(date) & ".txt"
strRoboExe = "C:\MSP\tools\robocopy.exe"
 
objShell.Run strRoboExe &" " &strDest &" " &strTarget &" " &strParameter,0,true
Msgbox "Finished robocopy sync"
Set sendmail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
 
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtp.gmail.com"
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 465
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendemailaddress") = "my@gmail.com"
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "my@gmail.com"
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "password"
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = true
 
sendmail.Configuration.Fields.Update
 
sendmail.From = "my@gmail.com"
sendmail.To = "customer@isp.com.au,backup@msp.com"
sendmail.Subject = "CUSTOMERNAME Robocopy Backup Job"
sendmail.Textbody = "Your Robocopy Backup Job has completed - attached file has details"
sendmail.AddAttachment "C:\CUSTOMERNAME" & right("0" & month(date),2) & "-" & right("0" & day(date),2) & "-" & year(date) & ".txt"
sendmail.Send
msgbox("mail sent")
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Tags: robocopy, compress, vbs
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