Robocopy script that created folder in destination with date

Question

I'm trying to write a script that copies a folder every week night. I would like it to create a folder each night in the destination directory.

So I'm trying to make a script that copies "C:\logs" to "I:\logs\today's date"

So the destination folder should look like this

"I:\logs\Monday_1272014" then the next night it should look like this "I:\logs\Tuesday_1282014"

and so on for each weekday. I'm not sure if I'm making sense, but any help would be appreciated.

So far I have this for the Robocopy script: robocopy "E:\Batch Files" "I:\Backups\Monday" /MIR

But that would just create a folder named Monday. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, it does not have to be robocopy. I just use that because it's the only one I know. I wouldn't mind learning how to do it as a batch file or VB Script.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The first four lines of this code will give you reliable YY DD MM YYYY HH Min Sec variables in XP Pro and higher.

@echo off
for /f "tokens=2 delims==" %%a in ('wmic OS Get localdatetime /value') do set "dt=%%a"
set "YY=%dt:~2,2%" & set "YYYY=%dt:~0,4%" & set "MM=%dt:~4,2%" & set "DD=%dt:~6,2%"
set "HH=%dt:~8,2%" & set "Min=%dt:~10,2%" & set "Sec=%dt:~12,2%"

set "datestamp=%YYYY%%MM%%DD%"

Alter the order of %yyyy% and %mm% and %dd% to suit you and then you can add the variable to Robocopy:

robocopy "E:\Batch Files" "I:\Backups\%datestamp%" /MIR

Answer 2

@ECHO OFF &SETLOCAL enableDelayedExpansion
FOR %%a IN (Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday) DO SET /a cnt+=1&SET "DOW!cnt!=%%a"
FOR /f "tokens=1-4" %%a in ('wmic path win32_currenttime get Day^,Month^,Year^,DayOfWeek^|findstr /v "^$"') DO (
    IF %%a LEQ 9 (SET "Day=0%%a") ELSE SET "Day=%%a"
    IF %%c LEQ 9 (SET "Month=0%%c") ELSE SET "Month=%%c"
    SET "Year=%%d"
    SET "DayOfWeek=%%b"
)
ECHO(ROBOCOPY "E:\Batch Files" "I:\logs\!DOW%DayOfWeek%!_%Day%%Month%%Year%" /MIR

This doesn't work in XP Home.