I'm quite new to .net so would appreciate your help. My project is nearing completion and I would like to save my work prior to making changes each day, should something go wrong.
Eventually I would like to end up with a series of archived projects so that I could revert back to the last one if need be.
How would I do this? Or is there some other method of keeping my uncompleted but working project "safe".
I have two different versions of a command line script that I wrote. The first is written in python and the second in vbscript. The usage is the same for both (pick your poison).
archive <folder>
where <folder> is the name of the folder that you want to archive. For example, if you have a VB project in a folder named "booklib", go to the folder containing your VB projects and type
archive booklib
The script (either one) will create a zip file named
YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM booklib.zip
where YYYY-MM-DD is the current date and HH-MM is the current time.
If you use the VBS version, I suggest you type the following at the command prompt (once)
cscript //h:cscript //nologo //s
This sets the default vbscript processor to the command line (cscript.exe) version and save it (//s) as the default.
# #
# Name: #
# #
# archive.py #
# #
# Description #
# #
# Archives the given folder (and everything below) into a zip file where the zip file #
# name is "yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm folder.zip" #
# #
# Audit: #
# #
# 2010-07-29 - converted to Python 3.1 #
# 2010-07-26 - converted from vbScript to Python #
# #
import os
import sys
import datetime
import zipfile
def formatPrefix ():
"""
-
formatPrefix()
Using the current date and time, format a string as "YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM "
-
"""
now = datetime.datetime.now()
res = "%02d-%02d-%02d %02d-%02d " % (now.year,now.month,now.day,now.hour,now.minute)
return res
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
print("archive <folder>")
print()
print(" <folder> must exist within the current working directory")
sys.exit(0)
folder = os.path.split(sys.argv[1])[1]
if not os.path.isdir(folder):
print("'" + folder + "' is not a folder within the current working directory")
sys.exit(1)
file = formatPrefix() + folder + ".zip"
print()
print("archiving folder:",folder)
print(" as:",file)
print()
f = zipfile.ZipFile(file,'w',zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(folder):
for filename in filenames:
print(" adding:",os.path.join(dirpath,filename))
f.write(os.path.join(dirpath,filename))
f.close()' '
' Name: '
' '
' Archive.vbs '
' '
' Description: '
' '
' This script will (recursively) archive the given directory. The zip file will be named '
' as YYYY-MM-DD HH;MM dirname.zip. '
' '
' Usage: '
' '
' archive dirname [exclude] '
' '
' dirname: the name of the directory to archive '
' exclude: file name (or pattern) to exclude '
' '
' Example: '
' '
' Let's say you are going to make code changes to one or more modules in the weather '
' application in f:\apps\weather. You want to archive the existing code in case it blows '
' up after the changes are made. You want to be able to restore the application files, '
' but you don't want to back up or restore the log files. Locate to the f:\apps '
' directory and type '
' '
' archive weather *.log '
' '
' All files in weather and below) will be archive except for files of the form *.log. '
' '
' Audit: '
' '
' 2006-01-12 jdeg changes to allof use from coontext menu '
' 2001-07-30 jdeg added exclude option '
' '
set wso = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set arg = Wscript.Arguments
if arg.Count >= 1 then
if arg.Count >1 then
exclude = " -x " & arg(1) & " "
else
exclude = ""
end if
currdate = Now()
path = fso.GetParentFolderName(arg(0))
fold = fso.GetFileName(arg(0))
archive = path & Year(currdate) _
& "-" & Right("0" & Month(currdate),2) _
& "-" & Right("0" & Day(currdate),2) _
& " " & Right("0" & Hour(currdate),2) _
& ";" & Right("0" & Minute(currdate),2) _
& " " & fold & ".zip"
wso.run "zip -r " & """" & archive & """" & " " & """" & arg(0) & """" & exclude
end if
set arg = Nothing
set wso = Nothing
'msgbox "done"I'm quite new to .net so would appreciate your help. My project is nearing completion and I would like to save my work prior to making changes each day, should something go wrong.
Eventually I would like to end up with a series of archived projects so that I could revert back to the last one if need be.
How would I do this? Or is there some other method of keeping my uncompleted but working project "safe".
Thanks, I'll give it a try. Very kind of you!
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