Recent content by nobby87

"Well for starters put all the code in a single batch file."........This is what im trying to find out. the back ups are scheduled to run at certain times during the night. The back up scripts are for work. All need the script to do is monitor the netowork connection to a specified IP address...

Going by Eximo's theory, lets say for example my back up script was this...(Its not...but lets pretend it is :-) ) @echo off start C:\users\aaronc\desktop\Test2.bat timeout 15 ping -t 192.168.1.1 And I also have a script that is monitoring a connection to an IP address..... @echo off ECHO...

sounds like an idea, could you please give an example of how i could do this please?

The scripts run automatically during the night so there can be no operator input whatsoever. That's why I need the other batch file to be able to intervene.

Hi everyone. forum newbie here. I am trying to find a way to interrupt a running batch file. Basically, my reason for this is I have some batch files that carry out a backup process of data. This data is stored across a network and backs up to a seperate server. occasionally certain backups...