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Number   :  3358
Date     :  2002-12-20
Author   :  Garry Deane
Subject  :  Re: how to trap success?
Size(KB) :  1


In addition to creating a log file as Arian has suggested, you can 
test the exit code with an IF ERRORLEVEL test and take appropriate 
action to notify the user depending on the error. Xxcopy returns exit 
codes as follows:

0 - No error
1-99 - OS, syntax, etc error
100 - Nothing found matching copy criteria
101-> Failed to copy (errorno-100) files.

See xxcopy /helpe for more detail. Bearing in mind that an IF 
ERRORLEVEL nn test is true if the error code is equal to or GREATER 
than nn, you can do something like the following:

XXCOPY source target /oAxxcopy.log
if errorlevel 101 goto :copyerror
if errorlevel 100 goto :nocopy
if errorlevel 1 goto :fatalerror
:: All went well, no errors
echo Xxcopy completed successfully
goto :eof
:copyerror [errorlevel 101 or higher]
:: Some files not copied, might be a problem
echo Xxcopy completed successfully but failed to copy some files
:: Other commands like Blat to notify of partial error
goto :eof
:nocopy [errorlevel 100]
:: Success unless there will always be files to copy
echo Xxcopy could not find any files to copy
goto :eof
:fatalerror [errorlevel 1-99]
:: Serious error encountered
echo Xxcopy encountered a fatal error
:: Other commands like Blat to notify of fatal error
goto :eof

Garry

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Brad Kingsley"  wrote:
> I'd like a tool - like XXCOPY - to mirror content on some
> servers. I was thinking that I'd set it up in a batch file
> and call it that way. What are others doing to trap success
> or error messages? The thing that makes me nervous about
> this (or Robocopy) is that I don't have a good way to tell
> if it worked or if it had errors. For example, it could be
> scheduled to run at midnight every day, and perhaps one night
> it got an error 3/4 of the way through the mirror -- how
> would I know?



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