@BenN, yeah, attempted migration to SF would explain it.

@DavidPostill That sounds like me! Did I ask this question?!

Holy crap, Birdman! I'm still awake.

'

So basically it's not an answer anymore because the link is dead?

If it contains zero relevant information without the links, then it is NAA

Oh, we bashing on hmc again?

Is this 'cause of the meta post?

I don't think so; I thought it came up because of the above discussion on a question about Windows Server 2012

There is a shred of information in the answer itself though, so an NAA flag would be risky

who or what is hmc?

harrymc, bounty hunter.

Oh right

So what, he only answers bounties?

that's kinda funny, and pretty hardcore

Yep, pretty much exclusively afaik.

Interestingly, win2008workstation.com is still functional, I wonder if the win2012 site is only down temporarily.

so either he already knows the answers, but only answers bounties.... or he researches every post that's bountied?

Can you edit and link to internet archive instead?

@djsmiley2k I think it's the latter as sometimes the answers aren't great.

Yep, the IA has it

@BenN Was just thinking this..

@MichaelFrank No :)

CMD /C start "" /d"C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\Backup Scripts\" "robocopy.bat" 10.X.XX.XXX "F:\Backups\Stores - XXX\" "%data%" "Store Name"

|Does that look sane? because it fails horribly

Do you need a space between /d and the path?

Is there a specific error it throws?

[/D path]

urgh, looks like maybe it does

/me sighs, that SE answer is wrong then (no, i can't remember where it is to fix it either)

@DavidPostill A post author is contesting your deletion of this answer

@MichaelFrank Some of it can be found on the wayback machine web.archive.org/web/20160921113827/http://… but I can't be bothered fixing up the answer.

@BenN ok fixed that, the problem is it's trying to execute something that's meant to be an option passed to the command...

That looks like an answer to me, albeit buried in the middle of some other stuff

@BenN On it.

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
'J' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

there's a string, passed in " " containing D&J

it's like it's executing that, for some obscure reason

let me paste what I can...

Might the error be in the batch file instead of the invocation?

@echo off

echo "Starting backup copy for %4% - %3%"

CMD /C start "" /d"C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\Backup Scripts\" "robocopy.bat" 10.X.XX.XXX "F:\Backups\Stores - XXX\" "%data%" "Something D&J something"

Oh wait, I think the cmd process launch might be eating some quotes

yeah

I'm unsure how to fix that? :/

PowerShell is one option

Another is to escape them, let me look up how to do that...

Huh, I don't know. Double up the quotes?

I think we've talked about this before. It's always to do with the Window Title not working properly...

:O

CMD /C start "THIS BIT?"

:D

Hmmm

I could just rename the fodler to remove th & I guess, if that's what's breaking it

Oh, to escape the &, I think you need a ^

Ahh yea, here's the post: superuser.com/questions/1001891/…

so "D^&J" ?

The window title is non-negotiable. But You have one, so it's not the issue.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

i saw this post ysterday

but I thought the ^ was ending the command...

That's regex

@djsmiley2k Space missing after /d

Put extra quotes around the whole command string

CMD /C start "" /d ""C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\Backup Scripts\" "robocopy.bat" 10.X.XX.XXX "F:\Backups\Stores - XXX\" "%data%" "Something D&J something""

You may need the ^& as well. Test it to see.

ss64.com/nt/cmd.html

ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html

@FleetCommand, I found archived versions of the dead links and fixed it.

@DavidPostill Ok, need the extra speachmark after the directory setting it seems

but then it sees the whole thing as one command, rather than a command and arguments... hmmmm

CMD /C "start... blah" ?

@djsmiley2k Ah. I got the quotes wrong.

Try this

'robocopy.bat"  "10.185.X.XXX' is not recognized as an internal or external comm
and,
operable program or batch file.

CMD /C start "" /d "C:\Users\XXX\Desktop\Backup Scripts\" ""robocopy.bat" 10.X.XX.XXX "F:\Backups\Stores - XXX\" "%data%" "Something D&J something""

it feels 'almost right'

@fixer1234 Thanks. You ninja'd my comment so I've deleted it :)

yeah, it's still trying to execute the whole string as a single command, rather than a command (the batchfile) and arguments for it

@ThatBrazilianGuy \o

\o_

@ThatBrazilianGuy Is there still anything left after the riots?

How do you escape quotes?

@djsmiley2k Easy, never say anything relevant.

:D

that hasn't worked for Trump

@djsmiley2k backslash?

@DavidPostill Well, guess who thought it was a goo idea to show support for the protests and go to the square where the protesters would be?

@DavidPostill double quotes!

wooooooooooo it tried to execute the WHOLE line now \o/

this is progress

Hint: it starts with "me" and ends with "what the hell was I thinking"

omg it executed \o/

@djsmiley2k Ah, it ran but did it work?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Are you OK?

@DavidPostill Yeah, I mised the fun by about 5 minutes.

Which reads as:

@ThatBrazilianGuy You were bloody lucky?

CMD /C start "Title" /D "C:\the annoying dir\" robocopy.bat IP ""F:\Backups\whatever the other annoying named dir is"" ""%d%"" ""D & J"""

check out that quoting :/

As soon as I arrived as was 1 block away from the square, I saw about 6 motorbikes entering a corner, each with 2 heavily armed military policemen, each with what I hope were rubber bullet rifles, but big and scary anyway, and two of them were aiming the rifels at regular passersby, not even protesters.

HP, your support chat has been "something went wrong" for over a week.

ok

(LIKE THERE IS EVEN A DIFERENCE FOR THE POLICE. HA)

why when i execute a bat file is it just looping o_O

So I grabbed my wife by the hand and said "let's get out of here NOW".

@MichaelFrank Is it ran by Brazilians?

@ThatBrazilianGuy Good job.

While she wanted to take picutres for instagram and livestream for facebook+_+

My wife has a habit of not getting the point

yah

I remember seeing a guy who collapsed in spain

amblances, paramedics etc

She hadn't noticed, so I take her hand and am like 'We are going to walk up here'

she bloomin don't listen, sees him, gets all upset

-_-

As soon as I convinced her to leave we heard the pepper bombs from about, dunno, 50m distance

And coming near and near

it was a mess

people runnig everywhere

@DavidPostill Hmmm can I paste about 10 lines of code here? or should I pastebin it?

@echo off
echo "Starting backup copy for %4% - %3%"
robocopy /eta /z "\\%1\c$\XXX\dbbackup" "%2\%3%" MREP.* CDB.* /MAXAGE:1
echo "Finished backup copy for %4%"
echo "Compressing files for %4%"
REM Now compress stuff
echo "Finsished compressing files for %4%"
echo "Cleaning up uncompressed files"
REM Remove uncompressed files
echo "Finished, press enter to close window"
PAUSE
EXIT

@djsmiley2k Go for it.

I tried to run far away from the mess but the more we ran the more we ran in the same directioin as people dressend in black, with shirts over their faces, that it, the stereotypical "vandal" the police loves to beat the shit out of.

So, why would that above script loop o_O(

And the few bars and restaurants still open were quickly closing their doors. And barring everyone from entering for refuge.

By sheer luck we found a corner where we could run in the opposite perpendicular direction

And we came back home in time to see on the news half a dozen buses burning on the exact spot we were 15min before

@DavidPostill So, yeah, I think I was lucky

@ThatBrazilianGuy IPcrap man, stay safe

@DavidPostill Oh got it, I hope

That bus isn't having a good time at all.

%4 is the 4th arguement, %4% is whatever you set it to

@MichaelFrank You never know, maybe it was it's dream to go up in flames?

The first photo was taking a 15min walk from where I live >_<

@ThatBrazilianGuy You live in Rio or Brasilia?

@DavidPostill Rio

@ThatBrazilianGuy, I thought those pictures were people at Berkeley protesting Ann Coulter's appearance.

@DavidPostill WHO IN THEIR SANE MIND would want to live in Brasilia?

what the bleepy mcbleepybleep?

@fixer1234 People where protesting what? Sorry I haven't followed international news that much lately.

@DavidPostill I promise I iddn't visit.

0_0

@ThatBrazilianGuy They were firing rubber bullets and tear gas according to the bbc

@ThatBrazilianGuy be careful.

rubber bullets can still kill

@DavidPostill Yeah, AFAIK they do that in protests since 2013.

and teargas is a bummer

@ThatBrazilianGuy Man, none of this is getting any coverage here... It's all Trump vs. N.Korea at this stage.

To be fair, it started last Friday and apparently already ended.

@JourneymanGeek There were a few cases back in 2013 of people dying of tear gas and people being blind by being hit with rubber bullets in the head.

sounds about right

ok arugh

passing arguemennts is impossible, back to doing 13 files by hand instead xD

(I'm trained in chemical warefare defence, and that includes getting teargassed 0_0)

TIL besides being a mod @JourneymanGeek is a certified K9 unit

;p

I mostly slept under desks in the military, and failed basic military training ;p

I might have found a legal loophole out of military service back when I was 18

officially declare insane certified has several meanings ... ;p

@ThatBrazilianGuy, mini-riots on some US college campuses against conservative speakers, especially since Trump won.

At least it's over a serious issue, like running out of coloring books in their safe spaces.

lul

@DavidPostill oddly enough, quite a lot of flavours of crazy still gets into the army

I don't get it

why, when I call this batch file, does it loop :/

as in it executes it over and over again

@djsmiley2k You haven't provided the complete batch file. Maybe it's time for a question on the main site? :)

morning

@DavidPostill yeah hehe

as i was providing it..... i saw my error

(i'd renamed the file i was working on to be store specific rather than a generic one which I passed the arguments to, as that wasn't working.

You can guess the next bit ;)

@djsmiley2k The rubber ducky strikes again ;p

in other news. IT WORKS \o/

@Bob \o

Next up, once it's finished the robocopy, it needs to compress the files.... fun

I should likely catch up on my night shift tasks too i guess :/

Meh. Writing scripts is way more fun.

@MichaelFrank it is

Wow nearly had a heartattack then

I updated the ticket viewer to see new tickets, expecting one or two

about 30 appear

from the automated system...

They are all automated reminders to tell someone to make a report...

why on earth don't have have these on autoassign o_O