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Create a backup using Robocopy

Creating a backup is a must if not a necessity for a SysAdmin job.

Backup doesn't need to be complex or needs a very powerful software to do a backup.

At the end of the day, whether it's a good commercial software creating a backup; what it does in the background is create another copy of the file or folders that needs to be backed up.

So, for that reason a simple copy command with the existing tool in Windows can do a job also for some simple backup like logs or other files.

Why need to backup the logs? In a security perspective and audit purposes, logs are very important. Of course, it will also depend on the contents of the log whether it is quite detailed or important data is captured like username, IP Address, time, files and folder being accessed and other data.

Problems or issues may not be detected in real-time or issues maybe notice at a later time but the action that cause the issue happened some time ago as well, in which the only witness are the logs.


A simple batch file script below using robocopy can copy a folder logs and create a backup somewhere on the network.


The batch file script below will create an error log if ever the  folder is not found or it has been accidentally deleted or the folder has been moved.

Rem ======Batch File======

IF NOT EXIST T:\logs\Nov2021 GOTO abortcopy

robocopy /s /e  T:\logs\Nov2021 "Y:\s\Nov-Bak-logs" 

:abortcopy

echo "Error No logs Nov2021 or Folder has been removed"  > S:\sys-ad-check\error\Nov-Error.txt

Rem ======Batch File======

The above script of course can be used to backup any folders, it can also be revised to add send an email alert if the folder is not found or either the backup has been successful.

Check out this link on how to send email via VBScript, https://quickbytesstuff.blogspot.com/2016/12/vbscript-send-email-via-office-365.html

PowerShell also provides a way on how to send email, so choice is always yours.


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