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Change bat file to email failures

Hello Everyone, I run a batch file that backs up a local copy of my SharePoint Server and then copies that backup file to a NAS server where I later back it up to tape or disk. I was wondering if based on the following lines that I have in my script if there was some way to determane if it failed and if so can I send myself an email that if failed.

Here is what I run each evening to get my backup....

cd %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN

stsadm.exe -o backup -url https://SHAREPOINTSITE -filename C:\SharePointBak\SPSiteBak.dat -overwrite

xcopy "C:\SharePointBak" "\\NAS DATA SERVER\SharePoint Backup" /e /y

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Grasty86

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Darren Collins

Apparently stsadm.exe returns 0 when successful and -1 (or non-zero) when it fails [1].

I would do something like this:

cd %programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN


stsadm.exe -o backup -url https://SHAREPOINTSITE -filename C:\SharePointBak\SPSiteBak.dat -overwrite
If %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 Goto EmailFail

xcopy "C:\SharePointBak" "\\NAS DATA SERVER\SharePoint Backup" /e /y

Goto End

:EmailFail
REM Do the emaily-bit here

:End
REM End Of Script

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Hope this helps,
Daz.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/markarend/archive/2007/11/08/scripting-stsadm-commands.aspx

Grasty86

That would only notify you if the backup failed, not if the backup succeeded and the copy failed.

Maybe you could modify that so that there is 2 spots to send an email? One to send an email saying the Backup Failed, and another that said the copy failed but the backup succeeded.

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That is a great suggestion Grasty! How would i do that?

I created a vbs to send an email and I am calling that vbs to send an email if it fails to backup. How would I determine if the copy fails and then send an email if it does?

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Grasty86

I agree, Daz's should work great for you (once you put in your calls for the vbs script you have of course.

CCG3

ASKER

Thanks guys! I was able to set this up and test it yesterday and I ran it live last night. Everything seems to be fine. Thanks for your help!!