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XCOPY and AT

Howdy.

I'm using XCOPY in a batch file and AT to schedule nightly backups on a Win2k3 Storage Server. I'm having a problem and am seeing the following stuff in the log:

"At2.job" (Tuesday.bat)
Finished 11/28/2006 2:15:00 AM
Result: The task completed with an exit code of (1).

I also see an exit code of (4)

I know these error codes are less than informative. Does anyone have any idea what might be happening? I've done this on other Win2k server machines without error.

If not - how bout a cheap/free alternative to AT or it's GUI equivalent.

TIA

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Seelan Naidoo

have a look a robocopy.exe, as it was designed for Windows 2003 as an improvment to xcopy..

Its part of the 2003 Res Kit

Download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9D467A69-57FF-4AE7-96EE-B18C4790CFFD

ttist25

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Sorry for taking so long to get back on this. It's certainly been a crazy few weeks.

Anyway - the LogFile thing worked exceptionally well. I was able to see that I'm getting an invalid drive specification error. Drives are mapped via Group Policy which occurs at login. I'm assuming that since I am not logged in when the batch file runs this is the reason for the error.

Today I'll do a "manual" mapping of these drives and see if that takes care of it.

Again - excellent advice. It worked like a charm.

THANKS!