candera / hobocopy

An open source backup tool for Windows
http://candera.github.com/hobocopy/
MIT License
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Add a LOG option like Robocopy (see /LOG, /LOG+ and /TEE) #14

Closed isenseep closed 13 years ago

isenseep commented 13 years ago

And have a Verbosity option that shows the files copied.

Its just easier than a redirect and the listing shows what happened!

candera commented 13 years ago

Thanks for the feature request. I'll consider adding this, but I'm going to put it behind fixing bugs in priority.

SINEKT commented 13 years ago

You can do it easy in the main backup batch script:

"HoboCopy command" >> "path\file.txt"

This way, all output is redirected to a text file that can be put anywhere you want. You can also add something like this:

ECHO ########################################### ECHO backup started/finished on %date%, at %time% ECHO ###########################################

to be able to keep track of the time and date of different backups logged in the TXT file. I guess it could be done with one text file per backup job as well, there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with Windows batch scripting.

isenseep commented 13 years ago

I already redirect the output. At verbose level 3 it doesn't have much info. Look at a robocopy log and you'll see what I'd like to have.