BAT file will not run from Task Scheduler but will from Command Line
- by wtaylor
I'm trying to run a BAT script from Task Scheduler in Windows 2008 R2 and it runs for 3 seconds and then stops.
It says it successfully completes but I know it doesn't.
I can run this script from the command line directly, and it runs just fine.
The bat file I'm running actually deletes files older than 7 days using "forfiles" then I'm mapping a network drive, moving the files across the network using robocopy, and then closing the network connection.
I have taken the network and copy options out of the file and it still does the same thing. Here is how my file looks:
rem This will delete the files from BBLEARN_stats
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\DB_Backups\BBLEARN_stats" -m *.* -d -17 -c "cmd /c del @file"
rem This will delete the files from BBLEARN_cms_doc
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\DB_Backups\BBLEARN_cms_doc" -m *.* -d -14 -c "cmd /c del @path"
rem This will delete the files from BBLEARN_admin
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\DB_Backups\BBLEARN_admin" -m *.* -d -10 -c "cmd /c del @path"
rem This will delete the files from BBLEARN_cms
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\DB_Backups\BBLEARN_cms" -m *.* -d -10 -c "cmd /c del @path"
rem This will delete the files from attendance_bb
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\DB_Backups\attendance_bb" -m *.* -d -10 -c "cmd /c del @path"
rem This will delete the files from BBLearn
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\DB_Backups\BBLEARN" -m *.* -d -18 -c "cmd /c del @path"
rem This will delete the files from Logs
forfiles -p "E:\BB_Maintenance_Data\logs" -m *.* -d -10 -c "cmd /c del @path"
NET USE Z: \\10.20.102.225\coursebackups\BB_DB_Backups /user:cie oly2008
ROBOCOPY E:\BB_Maintenance_Data Z: /e /XO /FFT /PURGE /NP /LOG:BB_DB_Backups.txt
openfiles /disconnect /id *
NET USE Z: /delete /y
This is happening on 2 servers when trying to run commands from inside a BAT file.
The other server is giving an error if (0xFFFFFFFF) but that file is running a CALL C:\dir\dir\file.bat -options and I've used commands like that before in Server 2003.
Here is the file for this file:
call C:\blackboard\apps\content-exchange\bin\batch_ImportExport.bat -f backup_batch_file.txt -l 1 -t archive
NET USE Z: \\10.20.102.225\coursebackups\BB_Course_Backups /user:cie oly2008
ROBOCOPY E:\ Z: /move /e /LOG+:BB_Move_Course_Backups.txt
openfiles /disconnect /id *
NET USE Z: /delete /y
Any help would be GREAT. Thanks
