I wrote this during high school, when I was only just beginning to use programming languages over 3rd party engines (Game Maker); 6 years later it's aged really well. Built for Windows, it copies the entire contents of a USB drive to a defined folder. There are checks and precautions in place: the name of the backup folder is defined in the scri…

USBBackup.bat

@ECHO OFF
ECHO USB Backup Utility designed by Kayne Ruse.

SET folder=USBBackup

ECHO Instructions
ECHO.
ECHO 1) There must be a folder called "%folder%" in this directory.
ECHO 2) The USB must have a copy of this file in it's root directory.
ECHO.

:getDrive
SET /P drive=Enter USB drive (one letter): 

IF NOT EXIST %drive%:\%~nx0 GOTO getDrive
IF NOT EXIST %folder% GOTO getDrive

COPY %~nx0 %drive%:\%~nx0 > NUL
COPY %drive%:\%~nx0 %folder%\%~nx0 > NUL

ECHO.

ECHO Copy the %drive%: drive files?
SET /P choice=    (y)es, (n)o, (s)hutdown or (r)estart: 

ECHO.

IF NOT %choice%==y (
IF NOT %choice%==s (
IF NOT %choice%==r (
GOTO end
)
)
)

XCOPY %drive%:\ %folder% /D /E /Y

IF %choice%==y GOTO end

IF %choice%==s (
SHUTDOWN -s -f -t 30
ECHO Shutdown in progress
)

IF %choice%==r (
SHUTDOWN -r -f -t 10
ECHO Restart in progress
)

:abort
SET /P abort=Enter (a) to abort: 
IF %abort%==a (
SHUTDOWN -a
GOTO end
) ELSE (
GOTO abort
)

:END
ECHO.
ECHO Program ended
PAUSE