Scheduled Tasks - How to create some with if & else?

Hello

I'm trying to implement some Scheduled Tasks.

These are for backups, and link to .bat scripts.

There are two kind of Batch scripts in-use;[list=1][*]One that backs-up data to the I:\ drive[*]One that backs up data to the N:\ drive[/list=1]
I'll include both scripts within the one NSIS installer. All servers have an I:\ drive, however only about half of them have the N:\ drive. Here is an idiosyncratic-programming way of showing you what I'd like;

If N:\ exists, extract nDrive-Script.bat to the Backup-Scripts directory

else extract iDrive-Script.bat to the Backup-Scripts directory.

Can you please give me an example script which;

• Extracts the batch files based on existing directories
• Installs them as Scheduled Tasks which run at a certain specified time & date

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

BTW: Backup-Scripts folder is located in T:\Backup-Scripts

To check if the drive exist, you can use IfFileExists, or ${If} ${FileExists} with the LogicLib header.
For scheduled tasks:

I have written some code, below which SHOULD do the first part (everything but install the new Scheduled Tasks).



I can't get the aforementioned code to compile correctly. 🙁

Here is the output of the compiler;



Please help me fix the script.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

Err... The compiler is already telling you what is wrong.
'Error: could not resolve label "PastIBackupsCheck" in function ".onInit"'

You tell it to go to a label that doesn't exist.

Problem solved!

Thanks, I found a better example online, and it is now this;

Function .onInit

IfFileExists "I:\Backups" 0 continue

		MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONQUESTION "Does I:\Backups exist?" IDYES true IDNO continue

true:

!macro ExtractiBackupScripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "Defrag.cmd"

	File "NTBackup.cmd"

   !macroend

!insertmacro ExtractiBackupScripts "T:\Backup-Scripts\"



continue:

   !macro ExtractnBackupScripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "NTBackup-2009.cmd"

   !macroend

!insertmacro ExtractnBackupScripts "T:\Backup-Scripts\"



FunctionEnd

Which seems to work fine... however I'd like to remove the prompt, and make it continue automatically based on existence of the drive letter/directory.

Also I'll need to add the Scheduled Tasks... which from the looks of things is very confusing. Hopefully I won't have to end up with "ExecWait"ing a Batch!!!

Please tell me how I can fix up my function.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

EDIT;

Might of fixed it with:

Section /o "N:\Backups detected" nBackups_detected

nBackupsExists:

  SectionGetFlags "${nBackups_detected}" $0

  IntOp $0 $0 | ${SF_SELECTED}

  SectionSetFlags "${nBackups_detected}" $0

MessageBox MB_OK nBackups

   !macro ExtractnBackupscripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "Defrag.cmd"

	File "NTBackup.cmd"

   !macroend

!insertmacro ExtractnBackupscripts "T:\Backup-Scripts"



PastnBackupsCheck:

   !macro ExtractiBackupScripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "NTBackup-2009.cmd"

   !macroend

!insertmacro ExtractiBackupScripts "T:\Backup-Scripts\c"



SectionEnd

EDIT2: Ended up fixing the issue, now just need to work out how to add Scheduled Tasks...

They ended up not wanting it, so I've got a half-finished script here. Works perfectly, however doesn't install any Scheduled Tasks.

Enjoy 😉

Panarchy

!include Sections.nsh



Name Scheduled Backups

OutFile "Scheduled Backups.exe"

InstallDir "T:\Backup-Scripts"



XPStyle on



Page components



Page instfiles

ShowInstDetails show



Section "Backup Scripts"

  !macro ExtractBackupScripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "Defrag.cmd"

	File "NTBackup-2009.cmd"

	File "NTBackup.cmd"

  !macroend

SectionEnd

; The following section removes old Scheduled Tasks

Section

!macro GetCleanDir INPUTDIR

  ; ATTENTION: USE ON YOUR OWN RISK!

  ; Please report bugs here: http://stefan.bertels.org/

  !define Index_GetCleanDir 'GetCleanDir_Line${__LINE__}'

  Push $R0

  Push $R1

  StrCpy $R0 "${INPUTDIR}"

  StrCmp $R0 "" ${Index_GetCleanDir}-finish

  StrCpy $R1 "$R0" "" -1

  StrCmp "$R1" "\" ${Index_GetCleanDir}-finish

  StrCpy $R0 "$R0\"

${Index_GetCleanDir}-finish:

  Pop $R1

  Exch $R0

  !undef Index_GetCleanDir

!macroend

 

!macro RemoveFilesAndSubDirs DIRECTORY

  !define Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs 'RemoveFilesAndSubDirs_${__LINE__}'

 

  Push $R0

  Push $R1

  Push $R2

 

  !insertmacro GetCleanDir "${DIRECTORY}"

  Pop $R2

  FindFirst $R0 $R1 "$R2*.*"

${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-loop:

  StrCmp $R1 "" ${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-done

  StrCmp $R1 "." ${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-next

  StrCmp $R1 ".." ${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-next

  IfFileExists "$R2$R1\*.*" ${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-directory

  ; file

  Delete "$R2$R1"

  goto ${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-next

${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-directory:

  ; directory

  RMDir /r "$R2$R1"

${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-next:

  FindNext $R0 $R1

  Goto ${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-loop

${Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs}-done:

  FindClose $R0

 

  Pop $R2

  Pop $R1

  Pop $R0

  !undef Index_RemoveFilesAndSubDirs

!macroend

!insertmacro RemoveFilesAndSubDirs "$WINDIR\tasks\"

SectionEnd

; The above section removes all Scheduled Tasks



Function .onInit

IfFileExists "I:\" 0 continue

		MessageBox MB_OKCANCEL|MB_ICONQUESTION "I've cheated the Message box with this, right?" IDOK true IDNO continue

true:

!macro ExtractiBackupScripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "Defrag.cmd"

	File "NTBackup.cmd"

   !macroend

!insertmacro ExtractiBackupScripts "T:\Backup-Scripts"



continue:

   !macro ExtractnBackupScripts ToDir

    SetOutPath `${ToDir}`

	File "Contig.exe"

	File "NTBackup-2009.cmd"

   !macroend

!insertmacro ExtractnBackupScripts "T:\Backup-Scripts"



FunctionEnd