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Backuping Files with BAT

When I need to backup a file in my bat script, I usually do like this:

copy /Y fileToBackup fileToBackup.bak_%date%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%

Which gives a nice timestamp in the filename, for example:

fileToBackup.bak_29-06-2010_1738
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