djaburg

There is, depending on the OS. With most it will be in the control panel, scheduled tasks. Once in there, just create the event you need and have it run. I would ensure that your .bat file runs without error prior to scheduling it.

I did something similar using rsync for windows, and it replicated several shared directories from one server to a backup server. The client didn't want to go the route of a clustered server with shared storage so I came up with this way. There was also a log file created that allowed me to see what files were and weren't copied. I think it worked better than xcopy because xcopy will do a full copy all the time, whereas rsync will sync all the first time and then only changed thereafter. That effectively reduces the time for the backup. Heck, I even had the .bat file shutdown their mssql service running for their Act! program, had it backup the database directories, and restart the service. Has run flawless for more than a year.