Question

I’m trying to setup 7zip for automated backups but I’m having trouble with output file names.

I tried using the %date% command but it just made 2 directories within my backup.

C:\Users\Desktop\Sun 11\07\2010.7z

How can I make it just log the day and month?

C:\Users\Desktop\Sun 11-07-2010.7z

Answer 1

Try

7z a %DATE:~-4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%.7z *.*     for (YYYY-MM-DD)

or

7z a %DATE:~7,2%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~-4%.7z *.*     for (DD-MM-YYYY)

(*.* is the mask for the files to back up)