how to set an environment variable for an external drive?

[Fayd]

i'm trying to set up a robocopy script for backup purposes of specific folders on the machine's main drive. i want them to point to a specific external drive. i want to make sure that either the external drive's drive letter doesn't change, (so that when i run the robocopy script, it's always pointing to the right location) or i need to set an environment variable that i can reference in the script.

alternatively, if i make the script run from the root directory of the drive, (ie make it the autorun.bat) will i have to specify drive letter, or will it automatically set it properly?

ex:

robocopy "C:\stuff\stuff" "stuff\stuff" /mir

will that work?

 

[MrScott81]

Sounds like you should setup a scheduled event. But as far as the drive letter goes, you cannot do that kind of thing, you will need to specify the full path as far as I know.

 

[Fayd]

Sounds like you should setup a scheduled event. But as far as the drive letter goes, you cannot do that kind of thing, you will need to specify the full path as far as I know.

i got the copy script working by placing the .bat file in the root directory of the drive, as i indicated above.

unfortunately i couldn't get it to auto-start on drive connection. anyone know how to make a custom autorun script?

 

[biostud]

cant you just make an autorun.inf?

 

[SoulAssassin]

if exist d:\foo robocopy "C:\foo" "d:\foo" /mir

You can throw an else in there for good measure to do some kind of notification that it didn't find it and to update the drive letter.