Batch file help - or help monitoring a scheduled task

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21 February 2008, 11:48 AM

Avi

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Batch file help - or help monitoring a scheduled task

Looking for some clever people out there who can ehlp me with this one :

I have a scheduled task that runs every five minutes, copying a file from the a server to a users PC. This is a network downtime procedure so the info is still available even if there is no network. As such, if the task fails.. the first i'll hear of it is if the network fails and the users can;t retrieve the info locally.

I'm trying to monitor that the file is copying. I'm trying to incorporate some sort of time check into a batch file, and if the file is more than 10 minutes old, then send a mail.

I've made a start (below) .. but all this does is emails me if the file doesn;t exist. Which it allways does as it overwrites every 5 minutes.

Any other suggestions on how i might do this are welcome!!

Cheers

Avi

Code:

IF NOT EXIST "C:\file.htm" GOTO NOEXIST
if exist "C:\file.htm" GOTO END

:NOEXIST
bmail -s srexchange5 -t me@email.com -f them@email.com -h -a "Subject FILE DOES NOT EXIST" -b 

"Body of message"

:END

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21 February 2008, 02:11 PM

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Couldn't tell you exactly, but a combination of ATTRIB and XCOPY should get the job done. You may want to copy the file to another temporary location based on whether its modifed or not then email if it doesn't exist or delete the temp copy.