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Compressing output file after backup

Asked by: naughtynat

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

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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2009-10-14 at 07:24:32ID24811275
Tags

robocopy

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compress

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vbs

Topics

DriveCopy

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VB Script

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Windows XP Operating System

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by: Alan_WhitePosted on 2009-10-14 at 10:06:01ID: 25572659

It's quite difficult to test this without your folder strutures, the compress.exe file etc but I've come up with the following.

You will need to provide the path the the compress.exe file in the Const.

Hopefully you can see what I've done with the filenames and the nested IF statement.

If it doesnt work first time (likely!) or if you need me to explain what I've done, please let me know.

Good Luck,

Alan

dim objShell, objFSO
dim strTarget, strDest, strParameter, strRoboExe, strUncompressedFileName, strCompressedFileName
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
strTarget = "e:\TARGETLOCATION"
strDest = "c:\BACKINGUPFROMLOCATION"
 
Const cCompressExe = "c:\Path\To\Compress.exe" 'obviously this needs changing!
 
strUncompressedFileName = "C:\CUSTOMERNAME" & right("0" & month(date),2) & "-" & right("0" & day(date),2) & "-" & year(date) & ".txt"
strCompressedFileName = Left(strUncompressedFileName,Len(strUncompressedFileName)-1)&"_"
 
strParameter = "/S  /PURGE /TS /FP /NP /TEE /XJ /R:1 /W:2 /LOG:"&strUncompressedFileName
strRoboExe = "C:\MSP\tools\robocopy.exe"
 
objShell.Run strRoboExe &" " &strDest &" " &strTarget &" " &strParameter,0,True
If objFSO.FileExists(strUncompressedFileName) Then
	If objFSO.FileExists(cCompressExe) Then
		objShell.Run cCompressExe & " -s -z "& strUncompressedFileName & " " & strCompressedFileName,0,True
		If objFSO.FileExists(strCompressedFileName) Then
			objFSO.DeleteFile strUncompressedFileName,True
		End If
	End If
End If
 
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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by: naughtynatPosted on 2009-10-14 at 11:06:35ID: 25573302

WORKED A BLOODY TREAT :D

location for compress.exe is the same as robocopy.exe to make it eaiser.

just needed to change file to attach as the tx_

Other than that works sweet!

Well that was a bit less painful than I thought it might have been!

 

by: naughtynatPosted on 2009-10-14 at 11:06:57ID: 31641067

thanks.

 

by: Alan_WhitePosted on 2009-10-15 at 02:01:35ID: 25578615

Glad I was able to help!

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