[python-win32] Mapping Drives in Python

[Becky Mcquilling]

Hi:

Hoping you guys can help out a python noob here.

I have a list of machines that I am backing up flat files from to one
central machine.  I need to:
a)  Map Drives and b) run robocopy

I am iterating through a text file that has the share names and the and
directory that I want to be created:


count = 0
alphabet = 'klmnopqrstuv'
today = datetime.date.today()
backup_servers = {}
f = open('c:/test/backup_shares.txt')
for line in f:
    backup_server = line.split(',')
    backup_servers[ backup_server[0]]=backup_server[1]
for i, v in backup_servers.items():
    backup_shares = i
    archive_dir = v.strip()
    archive_dir += str(today)
    drive_letter = alphabet[count]
    count += 1


The above creates a dictionary and I iterate through that.

backup_shares = '\\server_name\c$' for example and archive_dir is the
directory on the local machine that I will create with a timestamp to backup
the files to on the local machine example "d:\backup_dir\03-03-2011\files

What I want to do is map a drive, which is why the alphabet string.  I
iterate through that and then get k first backup dir, etc.

I'm not sure what method to call to map a drive or how the best way to call
robocopy is.  I don't have the choice of using IronPython.  I have the win32
modules.
And this works:
 win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'\\server_name\c$','local':'K:'})
However, I want to use the variable backup_server and insert the
drive_letter variable in the script snippet, but I haven't been able to make
that work.  Any suggestions?

Also, suggestions and examples on calling robocopy?

Thanks so much!

Becky
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