I'm trying to copy one folder into another folder but I'm getting errors,
I've wrote following SQL script:
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(1000)
DECLARE @Dt DATETIME
SET @Dt = GETDATE()
SET @SQL = 'xcopy "C:\test\" "D:\test\backup '+DATENAME ( day , @Dt )+''+LEFT(DATENAME ( month , @Dt ),3)+''+DATENAME ( year , @Dt )+''+REPLACE(RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 100),7),':','.')+'-'+DATENAME ( s , @Dt )+'\" /e /i /h '
PRINT @SQL
EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @SQL
I'm getting following error
Invalid path
yea, its working now, I used *.*
at the end of source path.
DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(1000)
DECLARE @Dt DATETIME
SET @Dt = GETDATE()
SET @SQL = 'xcopy "C:\test\*.*" "D:\test\backup '+DATENAME ( day , @Dt )+''+LEFT(DATENAME ( month , @Dt ),3)+''+DATENAME ( year , @Dt )+''+REPLACE(RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 100),7),':','.')+'-'+DATENAME ( s , @Dt )+'\" /e /i /h '
PRINT @SQL
EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @SQL