Hi: Hoping you guys can help out a python noob here.
I have a list of machines that I am backing up flat files from to one central machine. I need to: a) Map Drives and b) run robocopy I am iterating through a text file that has the share names and the and directory that I want to be created: count = 0 alphabet = 'klmnopqrstuv' today = datetime.date.today() backup_servers = {} f = open('c:/test/backup_shares.txt') for line in f: backup_server = line.split(',') backup_servers[ backup_server[0]]=backup_server[1] for i, v in backup_servers.items(): backup_shares = i archive_dir = v.strip() archive_dir += str(today) drive_letter = alphabet[count] count += 1 The above creates a dictionary and I iterate through that. backup_shares = '\\server_name\c$' for example and archive_dir is the directory on the local machine that I will create with a timestamp to backup the files to on the local machine example "d:\backup_dir\03-03-2011\files What I want to do is map a drive, which is why the alphabet string. I iterate through that and then get k first backup dir, etc. I'm not sure what method to call to map a drive or how the best way to call robocopy is. I don't have the choice of using IronPython. I have the win32 modules. And this works: win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'\\server_name\c$','local':'K:'}) However, I want to use the variable backup_server and insert the drive_letter variable in the script snippet, but I haven't been able to make that work. Any suggestions? Also, suggestions and examples on calling robocopy? Thanks so much! Becky
_______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32