Windows batch script to move files

Question

I need to move files from one directory to another in windows, and I need to write this in a batch script.

We have written a SQL job where backup files will be created every 4 hours on the D: drive and last 4 backup files will be saved and others will be deleted.

I need to write a batch script to move these files from the D: drive to the E: drive every 10 hours.

Can anyone help me to write this script.

Answer 1

This is exactly how it worked for me. For some reason the above code failed.

This one runs a check every 3 minutes for any files in there and auto moves it to the destination folder. If you need to be prompted for conflicts then change the /y to /-y

:backup
move /y "D:\Dropbox\Dropbox\Camera Uploads\*.*" "D:\Archive\Camera Uploads\"
timeout 360
goto backup

Answer 2

Create a file called MoveFiles.bat with the syntax

move c:\Sourcefoldernam\*.* e:\destinationFolder

then schedule a task to run that MoveFiles.bat every 10 hours.

Answer 3

You can try this:

:backup move C:\FilesToBeBackedUp\*.* E:\BackupPlace\ timeout 36000 goto backup

If that doesn't work try to replace "timeout" with sleep. Ik this post is over a year old, just helping anyone with the same problem.