ive tried everything listed in this thread so far and gotten no results.. arg.. is there anyway i could get you to explain it to someone that is completely computer illiterate?
If you are computer illiterate, you haven't tried everything in this thread!
Do you have Java installed? If you cannot answer this on your own I am not going any further lol
On the off chance that this will help you - the problem is that java.exe is not on any of a list of paths that it checks for .exe if you don't type out the directory where it is located, which is CLASSPATH or PATH iirc, can be found in computer -> properties somewhere in every windows OS.
Your choices are to add the path for java.exe to this or to directly specify where java.exe is by fully typing out the directory\java.exe instead of just 'java' in a shortcut or in DOS (but in DOS you would have to enclose the directory\java.exe in quotes because of the spaces in the directory names).
That is literally as much help as you can get short of someone remoting to your machine.
If you had a batch file you would need quotes. If you don't then don't worry about it.
In all honesty if this is stumping you you probably shouldn't be messing with a server because if you are lost now you will be blasted away into oblivion with any of the rest of the tech problems.
I have no idea how to code in DOS... but whatever. I'll give it a shot.
Oh, and by the way, that didn't work either, Brandon. It did the same thing, kept copying over my first backups and going down the list.
The basics would be xcopy with whatever switches, a variable for directory name, then an if exists dir check (and increment or change as appropriate until it doesn't exist) then finally xcopy to the dir variable. That one does all kinds of copying and honestly I don't understand the need for it.
Also I wouldn't loop in a batch file but if you must loop then use something like CHOICE <whatever> >NUL for a wait instead of a bogus ping like that has. The one you quoted is unnecessarily burdening both io and network.
It looks like it's supposed to be creating folder names based on datetime but despite an overly complex line making the folder name it never changes the variable past the first time.
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If you are computer illiterate, you haven't tried everything in this thread!
Do you have Java installed? If you cannot answer this on your own I am not going any further lol
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Your choices are to add the path for java.exe to this or to directly specify where java.exe is by fully typing out the directory\java.exe instead of just 'java' in a shortcut or in DOS (but in DOS you would have to enclose the directory\java.exe in quotes because of the spaces in the directory names).
That is literally as much help as you can get short of someone remoting to your machine.
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In all honesty if this is stumping you you probably shouldn't be messing with a server because if you are lost now you will be blasted away into oblivion with any of the rest of the tech problems.
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The basics would be xcopy with whatever switches, a variable for directory name, then an if exists dir check (and increment or change as appropriate until it doesn't exist) then finally xcopy to the dir variable. That one does all kinds of copying and honestly I don't understand the need for it.
Also I wouldn't loop in a batch file but if you must loop then use something like CHOICE <whatever> >NUL for a wait instead of a bogus ping like that has. The one you quoted is unnecessarily burdening both io and network.
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Because of the spaces you must use quotes in a batch file, and that's from memory so go find the exact location.
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