Automatically copy files without overwriting, but creating numbered ones instead

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Published on 2012-09-21T09:11:37Z Indexed on 2012/09/21 9:37 UTC
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I need to copy files at a regular interval, eg once an hour so I tried setting up an xcopy batch saying it should copy the files it needs to copy to another folder. Now when it copies, it overwrites the files which is not what it is supposed to do.

When a file is copied, it should create a new file instead, named something like File.txt, File-COPY1.txt, File-COPY2.txt or something like that.

Any way to do that?

Thanks in advance.

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