topic Copy daily files backup in SAS Programming

Copy daily files backup

BrahmanandaRao — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:44:14 GMT

I have received N no of files to a folder so how to those files read a d copy those files into another backup folder dynamically

Re: Copy daily files backup

japelin — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:55:41 GMT

Is this a task that needs to be handled by SAS?

Re: Copy daily files backup

PaigeMiller — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:18:50 GMT

If they are SAS data sets, use PROC COPY.

Re: Copy daily files backup

BrahmanandaRao — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:33:33 GMT

Xls csv files received to a folder so i want read and move into another backup folder
dynamically

Re: Copy daily files backup

japelin — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:02:54 GMT

If you really want to do it in SAS, you can use fcopy or something like that, but it is usually faster to do it with OS commands.
(xcopy, robocopy in Windows, cp in Linux, etc.)

Re: Copy daily files backup

BrahmanandaRao — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:23:49 GMT

Please give example xcopy robocopy

Re: Copy daily files backup

PaigeMiller — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:28:27 GMT

That would belong in a different forum, perhaps a Windows forum.

Re: Copy daily files backup

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:14:59 GMT

@BrahmanandaRao wrote:
Please give example xcopy robocopy

Maxim 6. GIYF.

Re: Copy daily files backup

Sajid01 — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 19:11:35 GMT

Please look here

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Copying-Files-from-one-directory-to-another/td-p/45283

https://support.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/sas-global-forum-proceedings/2018/2489-2018.pdf