xcopy & ping help

Ok hope you guys can help me out.

Below is my code

Everything work. (Yay)

But i wanted to see if i could output error code results to an "errorlog.txt" file

First if ping fails add "Date, Time, Connection Failed to Albert's PC" to errorlog.txt

next if any file fails to copy add "Date, Time, File Name here, Reason Here" to errorlog.txt

I would need this to be a continues error log file. Never overwriting anything.

lastly I would need some code to echo back onto the screen if any error was found. "Errors found see errorlog.txt for more info."

I have about 10 computers i have in the list. below is only one of the computers

Any thoughts?

Code:

echo. Connecting to Albert's PC...
PING 192.168.1.99 -n 1| FIND "bytes=" > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO.   Connection failed... && ECHO.     Skipping Albert's PC... && ECHO. && GOTO :EOF
echo.   Connection established...
echo.
echo.     Copying started...
echo.
XCOPY  *.* "\\192.168.1.99\C$\Users\Albert\Desktop\Reports\" /EXCLUDE:copyfiles.cfg /e/y/z/v/k
echo.
echo. Copying report files to Albert's PC Complete...

 

You're so close!

You're already using the output redirection operator (>) to output to NUL

If we tweak that slightly, and use the append redirection operator (>>) and point it to a file, that should keep a continuous log for us.

For example, you have:

Code:

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO.   Connection failed... && ECHO.     Skipping Albert's PC... && ECHO. && GOTO :EOF

If we changed that to:

Code:

IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ECHO.   Connection failed... Skipping Albert's PC... [B]>> C:\LOG.TXT[/B] && GOTO :EOF

That would append your error message to the file C:\LOG.TXT. Of course, you can modify the path to store the file where you like, but hopefully, that's a step in the right direction?

 

Ok that will work for half of it, but now how do i do the same thing but for the files I'm copying?

Code:

XCOPY  *.* "\\192.168.1.99\C$\Users\Albert\Desktop\Reports\" /EXCLUDE:copyfiles.cfg /e/y/z/v/k

PS. just tested the code. Works great. Is there a way to add date and time to the same line?

 

The documentation on xcopy may help.

Looks like xcopy has a few error levels:

Exit code Description
0 Files were copied without error.
1 No files were found to copy.
2 The user pressed CTRL+C to terminate xcopy.
4 Initialization error occurred. There is not enough memory or disk space, or you entered an invalid drive name or invalid syntax on the command line.
5 Disk write error occurred.

So you could write out error messages like:

Code:

if errorlevel 4 echo "Insufficient Memory" >> C:\LOG.TXT
if errorlevel 5 echo "Disc Error" >> C:\LOG.TXT

 

Oh for sure:

Code:

echo %DATE% %TIME% "ERROR MESSAGE HERE" >> C:\LOG.TXT

 

Is there anyway to output the specific file that errored out? I could be copying up to 100 files at a time. and it would be a pain to locate what failed. (Sometimes they are being accessed at the time.)

 

Hmmm.... Not sure on that one. I may need to defer to another geek for that answer.

A possible solution would be to use the /f switch on the xcopy command, and append it's output to file, so you would have a list of file names UP TO the file that errored out. (I do believe it copies in alphabetical order)

ex:

Code:

xcopy "c:\sourcedir" "c:\destinationdir" /f >> c:\LOG.TXT