cotufa-ssdd
Active Member
Hello WJ!
I recently saw a new thread asking about how to rar files automatically
So I decided to make a little tutorial that may help many, hope it does:
My technique uses a BATCH script I made and a scheduled task involving this BATCH file.
So first open up notepad or your favorite text editor
Type the following:
Save this as AutoRaR.bat (or whatever you want) and save it where you want
So the first path ¨C:\directory_you_want_to_compress¨ is the directory where the files you want to compress are located
SET PATH looks for rar.exe to run in command prompt
DO NOT EDIT THIS
DO WinRar executes winrar
-m0 is the compression level, where compresion level (0-store...3-default ...5-maximal) you can set which ever you want
-ep excludes the path from the created rar name (You can remove if you want to include path)
-df deletes the original files in the main directory you set first ¨C:\directory_you_want_to_compress¨
You can remove this if you want to maintain the files and remove manually later
Example:
[SLIDE]http://i48.tinypic.com/2qib6mu.png[/SLIDE]
Now create a new scheduled task to run AutoRaR.bat for example hourly, daily, weekly or whatever your needs
To create a new scheduled task go Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Task Scheduler and from here follow the wizard
Thats it Folks! Hope I helped!
::::EDIT::::
Hi guys here is a new addition based on user request:
-ag[format]
Add date to name to create unique files and not overwrite previous ones!
Format:
Y – year
M – month
MMM – month name as text string (Jan, Feb, etc.)
W – a week number (a week starts with Monday)
A – day of week number (Monday is 1, Sunday – 7)
D – day of month
E – day of year
H – hours
M – minutes (treated as minutes if encountered after hours)
S – seconds
N – archive number. RAR searches for already existing archive
with generated name and if found, increments the archive
number until generating a unique name. ‘N’ format character
is not supported when creating volumes.
Examples:
1) use the default YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -ep1 -r-ag backup
2) use DD-MMM-YY format
DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -ep1 -r -agDD-MMM-YY backup
3) use YYYYMMDD and the archive number. It allows to generate
unique names even when YYYYMMDD format mask used more than
once in the same day
DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -ep1 -r-agYYYYMMDD-NN backup
Hope it helped!
I recently saw a new thread asking about how to rar files automatically
So I decided to make a little tutorial that may help many, hope it does:
My technique uses a BATCH script I made and a scheduled task involving this BATCH file.
So first open up notepad or your favorite text editor
Type the following:
@ECHO OFF
cd C:\directory_with_files_you_want_to_compress
SET PATH=C:;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;%PATH%
FOR /f "delims=" %%d IN ('DIR /B') DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -df "C:\where_you_want_to_save_new_rar_files\%%~nxd.rar" "%%~fd"
EXIT
Save this as AutoRaR.bat (or whatever you want) and save it where you want
So the first path ¨C:\directory_you_want_to_compress¨ is the directory where the files you want to compress are located
SET PATH looks for rar.exe to run in command prompt
DO NOT EDIT THIS
DO WinRar executes winrar
-m0 is the compression level, where compresion level (0-store...3-default ...5-maximal) you can set which ever you want
-ep excludes the path from the created rar name (You can remove if you want to include path)
-df deletes the original files in the main directory you set first ¨C:\directory_you_want_to_compress¨
You can remove this if you want to maintain the files and remove manually later
Example:
[SLIDE]http://i48.tinypic.com/2qib6mu.png[/SLIDE]
Now create a new scheduled task to run AutoRaR.bat for example hourly, daily, weekly or whatever your needs
To create a new scheduled task go Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Task Scheduler and from here follow the wizard
Thats it Folks! Hope I helped!
Enjoy
cotufa-ssdd
cotufa-ssdd
NOTE: I have provided this as open source for anyone to use and modify
Please test before using on your original files
Please test before using on your original files
::EDIT::
I added suggestions tha WJ members have requested to the primary post:
EXCLUDE RAR FILES FROM RE-COMPRESSION:
@ECHO OFF
cd C:\directory_with_files_you_want_to_compress
SET PATH=C:;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Win dows\System32\Wbem;%PATH%
FOR /f "delims=" %%d IN ('DIR /B') DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -df -x*.rar "C:\where_you_want_to_save_new_rar_files\%%~nxd.rar" "%%~fd"
move /-y "C:\directory_with_files_you_want_to_compress\*.rar" "C:\where_you_want_to_save_new_rar_files\"
EXIT
Where -x*.rar means ¨exclude all .rar files¨. You can add more files to exclude for example add another -x*.zip
Since you excluded all rar files, they will stay in the original directory, thats what the next code does, move, this is simply moving all .rar files to the same directory where the compressions are being made.
COMPRESS IN MULTIVOLUMES:
Edit this line:
FOR /f "delims=" %%d IN ('DIR /B') DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -df -x*.rar -v100m "C:\where_you_want_to_save_new_rar_files\%%~nxd.rar" "%%~fd"
-v100m will save multivolumes of 100m. Or change to whatever you need..
ADD README, INSTRUCTION OR ANY ¨BASE¨ FILE TO ALL COMPRESSIONS:
@ECHO OFF
for /D %%f in ("C:\directory_with_files_you_want_to_compress\*") do copy "C:\directory_with_readme.txt\readme.txt" "%%f\"
cd C:\directory_with_files_you_want_to_compress
SET PATH=C:;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Win dows\System32\Wbem;%PATH%
FOR /f "delims=" %%d IN ('DIR /B') DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -df -v100m -x*.rar "C:\where_you_want_to_save_new_rar_files\%%~nxd.rar" "%%~fd"
EXIT
This new line will add the readme.txt to all original folders before compression. It then moves on to compress each folder to the specifications discussed earlier.
Notice that the readme.txt is located in a diferent directory, that is so it will not be compressed and removed.
UNRAR PASSWORDED FILES:
ECHO OFF
cd C:\PATH TO RARS
SET PATH=C:;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Win dows\System32\Wbem;%PATH%
FOR /f "delims=" %%d IN ('DIR /B') DO unRaR e -p123456 *.rar C:\DESTINATION TO EXTRACT
EXIT
123456 is the password and it is the same password for *all rars.
Enjoy
cotufa-ssdd
cotufa-ssdd
NOTE: I have provided this as open source for anyone to use and modify
Please test before using on your original files
Please test before using on your original files
::::EDIT::::
Hi guys here is a new addition based on user request:
Create Backups Without overwriting Previous Files
-ag[format]
Add date to name to create unique files and not overwrite previous ones!
Format:
Y – year
M – month
MMM – month name as text string (Jan, Feb, etc.)
W – a week number (a week starts with Monday)
A – day of week number (Monday is 1, Sunday – 7)
D – day of month
E – day of year
H – hours
M – minutes (treated as minutes if encountered after hours)
S – seconds
N – archive number. RAR searches for already existing archive
with generated name and if found, increments the archive
number until generating a unique name. ‘N’ format character
is not supported when creating volumes.
Examples:
1) use the default YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -ep1 -r-ag backup
2) use DD-MMM-YY format
DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -ep1 -r -agDD-MMM-YY backup
3) use YYYYMMDD and the archive number. It allows to generate
unique names even when YYYYMMDD format mask used more than
once in the same day
DO WinRAR a -m0 -ep -ep1 -r-agYYYYMMDD-NN backup
Hope it helped!
Enjoy
cotufa-ssdd
NOTE: I have provided this as open source for anyone to use and modify
Please test before using on your original files
cotufa-ssdd
NOTE: I have provided this as open source for anyone to use and modify
Please test before using on your original files
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