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robocopy advice

I am using robocopy to copy data and profile folders across the wan to my NAS server so it can be backed up there. It took a little tweaking but it seems to be working OK.
But every day I have to open 10 log files and scroll to the bottom to see if they finished by looking at the summary on the bottom.
my questions are:
is there a way to have it notify me somehow that is has completed or not?
or is there a way to have the log only give me a summary unless there are errors?

here are the scripts I am running thru the task scheduler. Both of theses are in one batch file

robocopy "D:\data" "\\nas\BranchDataBackUp\XXX\data" /S /PURGE /V /XO /NP /LOG:"\\nas\BranchDataBackUp\XXXdata.txt" /B /R:100 /W:15

robocopy "D:\Profiles" "\\nas\BranchDataBackUp\XXX\profiles" /S /PURGE /V /XO /NP /LOG:"\\nas\BranchDataBackUp\XXXprof.txt" /B /R:100 /W:15

what I am try to accomplish is to back up new files and delete non-existing files.

any ideas?

eggm4n

I would just write a little batch file and use BLAT to send the mail out:

@echo off
Echo.
Echo -Set Date Variables
Echo.
Set day=%DATE:~7,2%
Set mm=%DATE:~4,2%
Set dd=%DATE:~7,2%
Set yyyy=%DATE:~10,4%

robocopy “\\servername\source” “\\servername\destination” /E /V /LOG+:”d:\logs\robocopy_%mm%%yyyy%.txt” /r:0
if errorlevel 16 echo –Fatal Error– & goto notify
if errorlevel 8 echo –Failed Copies– & goto notify
if errorlevel 4 echo –Mismatches– & goto notify
if errorlevel 2 echo –Extra Files– & goto end
if errorlevel 1 echo –Copy Successful– & goto end
if errorlevel 0 echo –No Changes Found– & goto end

:Notify
c:\blat262\blat -to yourEmail@addy.com -f ServerName@company.com -subject “Problem Report–ReplicationScript.cmd” -bodyF d:\logs\txucopy_%mm%%yyyy%.txt
Goto End

:End
echo.
echo -Done

http://www.blat.net/194/

GoHuskers

ASKER

looks promising!!
a few questions before I test it out.
I am setting this up to overwrite the previos so do I need the date variables?
Does this understand UNC to look across the lan where the files are or do I need to map a drive ?
I notice that you are using fewer switches in robocopy than I am. Am I using unnecessary ones?
thanks

eggm4n

That was just an example. Just plug in your robocopy commands from your post. You'll need two of these, one for each copy job.

GoHuskers

ASKER

i put a pause at the end of the script to see what I get and this is it
i also changed the goto to notify for no changes found to generate an email so I can run again and again to test

-set date variables
-no changes found
-to does not exist (this one here I assume is the issue) and I do not receive an email
-done
press any key to continue...........

i do not get an email
any ideas?

GoHuskers

ASKER

The blat is working well

now to address the rest of the question regarding generating a summary instead of a line by line text file.

how did you come up with the errorlevel syntax? Are these complete or are these an example that I will need to be adjusted?

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GoHuskers

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your help so far has been incredibly helpful. Your definitly earning your points this time. :-)
thanks i did already fine the error codes and implement them.
but I did receive an error last night but it didn't notify me.
Below is the script that I run and tested.
To test I changed errorlevel 0 to notify then reran the job and it generated an email as expected so the script I believe is working.
the log shows error 21 (0x0000000015).
Is that errorlevel 21 or 15?
Did it not work right or do I need to create an errorlevel 21?
I'm not much of a programmer so any insight would be greatly appreciated.

LOG:
2011/08/30 20:02:43 ERROR 21 (0x00000015) Accessing Source Directory D:\data\
The device is not ready.
ERROR: RETRY LIMIT EXCEEDED.
2011/08/30 20:02:44 ERROR 21 (0x00000015) Accessing Source Directory D:\data\
The device is not ready.

here is my script:
robocopy "D:\data" "\nas-2\BranchDataBackUp\XXX\data" /S /PURGE /V /XO /NP /LOG:"\\nas-2\BranchDataBackUp\XXXdata.txt" /B /R:10 /W:15
if errorlevel 16 echo ***FATAL ERROR*** & goto notify
if errorlevel 15 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto notify
if errorlevel 14 echo FAIL + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto notify
if errorlevel 13 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + MISMATCHES & goto notify
if errorlevel 12 echo FAIL + MISMATCHES & goto notify
if errorlevel 11 echo OKCOPY + FAIL + XTRA & goto notify
if errorlevel 10 echo FAIL + XTRA & goto notify
if errorlevel 9 echo OKCOPY + FAIL & goto notify
if errorlevel 8 echo FAIL & goto notify
if errorlevel 7 echo OKCOPY + MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end
if errorlevel 6 echo MISMATCHES + XTRA & goto end
if errorlevel 5 echo OKCOPY + MISMATCHES & goto end
if errorlevel 4 echo MISMATCHES & goto end
if errorlevel 3 echo OKCOPY + XTRA & goto end
if errorlevel 2 echo XTRA & goto end
if errorlevel 1 echo OKCOPY & goto end
if errorlevel 0 echo No Change & goto end
:Notify
C:\WINDOWS\system32\blat -installt exchange.<name>.com BackUp
C:\WINDOWS\system32\blat \\Nt-nas-2\BranchDataBackUp\XXXdata.txt -subject "XXX data BackUpConcerns" -to sysmon@<domain>.com
Goto End
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