Hey folks - I'm currently making the switch back to windows. needed for school. But anyway what I'm trying to do is create weekly backups through a batch file - this is my current batch file robocopy C:\!Data\books\ /mir f:\\backup\books robocopy C:\!Data\school\ /mir f:\\backup\school robocopy C:\!Data\Programming\ /mir f:\\backup\Programming\ robocopy C:\!Data\usefull\ /mir f:\\backup\usefull\ robocopy C:\inetpub\ /mir f:\\backup\inetpub\ robocopy C:\!Data\pictures\ /mir f:\\backup\pictures\ robocopy C:\!Data\notes\ /mir f:\\backup\notes\ robocopy C:\AddisonWesley\ /mir f:\\backup\AddisonWesley\ is there a simple way to add that every monday it creates a new directory, so instead of it being robocopy c:\\*dir location* /mir F:\\backup\*dir location* it would be robocopy c:\\*dir location* /mir F:\\*date*\*dir location* if its not that easy is there a way to use a varible like %var% = 11112011 robocopy c:\\*dir location* /mir f:\\%var%\*dir location* I'm not to familiar with dos. or if there is an ability to do a system date check then pipe it into the file directory you are creating. Thanks for any input - you get what I'm trying to do. if anyone has any suggestions let me know