Batch file zipping

[chuck2002]

Ok here is what I have:
I have some windows backups that are done nightly and stored.

Here is what I want to do:
I would like to zip each .bak file via a scheduled task that runs each day. I want to do the files separately and dynamically, so for my example I have:
1 folder containing
100005.bak
1000045.bak
100043.zip

And so on. I want it to take each .bak file and compress it to %file_name%.zip, delete the original.bak file and move on to the next .bak file until they are all compressed individually.
I want to be able to schedule this to run daily.
Thank you for any suggestions.

 

[Ken g6]

First, get 7za.exe. Put it in your PATH.

Next, put the following in a batch file and it should do what you want, if I did it right:

for %%i in (*.bak) do 7za a -tzip "%%~ni.zip" "%%i" && del /f "%%i"

Test it before using it in production!!!

Finally, add the batch file to Task Scheduler to do it automatically.

 

[chuck2002]

Ken - Thank you very much for your help. This is exactly what I was looking for. It works like a champ.