Re: file backup in windows

k.i.n.g. wrote:
Hi ALL,

I am a newbee programmer and started of with python recently. I am
trying write a script which backups outlook (.pst ) files everytime I
shutdown my system. I have writtern following code after some findings
on net. My .pst file path is as follows

" c:\documents and settings\060577\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook "
where 060577 represents username. I want my script to identigy the user
logged in and go to the resp outlook folder or should be able to read
outlook store directory path from registry and the copy the files to
the desired path.

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how can i make the following code work, I have probelm with filepath
declaration.
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import os, shutil
filepath = ' C:\\Documents and Settings\\060577\\Local
Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Outlook\\* '
backup = ' D:\\temp\\outlook '

Aside: having a space at the beginning and/or end of the filename has
no good effect and may cause problems, so don't do it.

os.system ("xcopy /s %s %s" % (filepath, backup))
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It's always a good idea *before* you write an os.system call on *any*
operating system to try a few sample commands at the command line. You
would find in this case that the problem exists there too -- it has
nothing to do with Python. The problem is that the first argument
*contains* spaces, but the Windows command processor splits the command
line on spaces, so it thinks the first argument is 'C:\\Documents'. On
both the command line and in your script, you will need to wrap quotes
around each argument that does/could contain spaces.

[untested]
os.system ('xcopy /s "%s" "%s"' % (filepath, backup))

Hint: you should find it easier using raw strings for Windows
filenames:
backup = r'D:\temp\outlook'

HTH,
John

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