Success or failure echo

[gussy81]

OK so i have a script working for me. It mirrors one directory to the other and going forward it only mirrors files that have changed. I now want it to tell me if it has run successfully or not in the log as i want to run it out of hours daily:

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robocopy F:\ B:\ /e /mir /z /FFT /R:3 /W:5

Echo My Daily Backup Logged time = %time% %date%>>H:\log-of-daily-robocopy.txt

Thanks for any help

G

[Sponge Belly]

Hi Gussy!

If a command executes successfully, it sets errorLevel to 0, a non-zero integer otherwise. There’s an easy way to test for this and to take appropriate action. The syntax goes a little something like this:

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command && (
    success
    ) || (
        failure
        )
        

So, your code example would be rewritten as:

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2>nul robocopy F:\ B:\ /e /mir /z /FFT /R:3 /W:5 && (
    Echo(My Daily Backup Logged time = %time% %date%>>H:\log-of-daily-robocopy.txt
    ) || (
        Echo(Something went wrong with the robocopy backup!
        )
        

I hope this answers your question. If you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to ask.

- SB

[Squashman]

Robocopy has multiple return codes.
https://ss64.com/nt/robocopy-exit.html

[Sponge Belly]

Hi Squashman!

I didn’t know that about robocopy. Good to know, thanks!

Gussy, don’t use the "command && success || failure" syntax with robocopy. Follow the example on the SS64 web page referenced by Squashman. Make sure you start with the highest errorLevel and work your way down to the lowest.

Good luck!

- SB