I have several folders dir_01, dir_02, dir_03 that I want to backup in a zip file, say, backup.zip. This has to be saved in a folder with today's date. I need to get a .bat file to do the job; no additional third party executables allowed.
Here I found how to create a folder with today's date, but I am having problems to pass $destination to -DestinationPath. I created a .bat that calls PowerShell. Code giving me problems:
powershell.exe $destination = New-Item -Path 'C:\path\to\destionation' -ItemType Directory -Name ("$(Get-Date -f yyyy-MM-dd)") powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -command Compress-Archive -Path 'C:\path\dir_01', 'C:\path\dir_02', 'C:\path\dir_03' -DestinationPath $destination\backup.zip -Force The error message is the following:
New-Object : Exception calling ".ctor" with "2" argument(s): "Access to the path 'C:\backup.zip' is denied." At C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive\Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive.psm1:729 char:30 + ... ileStream = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.FileStream -ArgumentList $ ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Object], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConstructorInvokedThrowException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand However, the code works if I hard-code the path to destination, like this:
powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -command Compress-Archive -Path 'C:\path\dir_01', 'C:\path\dir_02', 'C:\path\dir_03' -DestinationPath 'C:\whole\path\backup.zip' -Force But doing so, I'm unable to save backup.zip in today's folder.
Question: How can I save backup.zip in the folder that I created with today's date?
