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Haidong Ji

Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:56 PM

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nlitchfield

Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 2:52 AM

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Small comment.

I really don't like On Error Resume next in any code - I know vbscripts error handling is poor in the extreme, but I'd write any errors to a text file and then (probably separately) mail an administrator the contents of the text file if there were any. That way you get notified if your maintenance is failing.

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Antares686

Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 6:22 AM

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You would still need On Error Resume Next to accomplish. I prefer to wrap in functions each bit so I have the effectiveness of a GOTO by being able to jump out of points return the error and have error logic (works in VBScript just takes a bit of work covering sometimes). Just make sure you only use it in conditions you specifically want to trap and handle and make sure you GOTO 0 at you earliest convience. You don't want your code getting out of hand because of the RESUME NEXT condition, I have seen that happen so many times.

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philcart

Posted Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:29 PM

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As one who has been bitten by "On Error Resum Next" I now eliminate it wherever it's encountered. The following snippet is much better for VBScript error handling

On Error Resume Next
[perform a statement]
[capture error variables to local variables]
On Error Goto 0

[Check local variable for error]
etc...

Also, you don't need to use VBScript to delete the files, including those in subdirectories. I use a combination of xp_dirtree, xp_getfiledetails and xp_cmdshell to list and delete files.

xp_dirtree [path], [depth], [include files]
xp_getfiledetails [file spec]

Hope this helps
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janiezhao

Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 2:01 PM

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I was trying to copy backups from one server to another by:

Exec usp_CopyFiles '\\ServerA\FolderName','\\ServerB\FolderName'

I got the following result:

output
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Invalid drive specification
0 File(s) copied
NULL

Can anybody tell me why?

Thanks in advance!

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