Batch File Automatic backup

Alright.. Well I've been racking my brain with this all morning. Here is what I need to do:

Preferably by batch file I need to back up files that are client specific. For example:

At the end of the day, run the batch file that scans a folder containing all the logs, finds which ones are there and moves them to their appropriate folder in another directory.

EG:

1. Scan folder \Logs\
2. Finds "1.log;3.log" etc.
3. Moves them to C:\Log\1 and C:\Log\3 respectively.

I hope there is an easy way to do this.. I don't want to be writing thousands of lines to copy files that probably aren't even there on other days.

If I'm being vague, I will include more information.

 

Just a quick one, though I'm not sure it's what you want:

Code:

@echo off
cd Logs
if exist "1.log" move "1.log" c:\log\1\1.log /y
if exist "2.log" move "2.log" c:\log\2\2.log /y
if exist "3.log" move "3.log" c:\log\3\3.log /y

It overwrites the old logs, which I'm not sure you want. You can add more logs to move with copy/paste, and changing the 4 numbers to whatever name you want. Or do you want something that makes folders for new logs, and both moves and renames them to avoid overwriting, without having to edit the batch file? I think that's possible, though I don't have time to write it now. There are more than a few people here who can write better batch files than me, though.

 

THank you. This will do. The only problem is that the files also have timestamps in their names:

EG: 1_00000.log

Is the above command adaptive to wildcards and how can I copy it, preserving the file name?

 

Nevermind, cheated

 

If you want to move all found .log files you could use this:

Code:

@echo off &setlocal

:: source root folder
set source=C:\whereever\logs

:: destination root folder
set destn=C:\log

md "%destn%" 2>nul
pushd "%source%" ||goto :eof
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /a-d /b *.log') do (
  md "%destn%\%%~na" 2>nul
  move /y "%%~a" "%destn%\%%~na\"
)
popd

Regards
GermanOne