If I'm correctly reading that you just want to back up the DP database
files themselves, then DPBackup is the tool for you. It's one of the DP
utilities that came with the original program and still works well for
this. It also support command line options so you have the choice of
running it in 'GUI' or scripted mode.
Note that it creates a single backup file containing all of the files
that make up the database, so you have to use DPBackup to
extract/restore the backup if necessary. And that (as a DOS app like DP)
it can't handle long filenames so you have to use the 8.3
filenames/pathnames.
Have you got a copy of DPBackup.exe?
Tim Rude
On 11/19/2014 12:12 PM, Don Friedman wrote:
I've been busy trying to correct some operational problems. Here's my
second one for today that I've been mulling over for a week or so.
When in the middle of a political campaign I produce a lot of reports,
some just basically junk reports, others that are used and yet others
that are really using the reports in spreadsheets and text files that
may be the basis of imports or reports. When I go to backup what I
really want to do is copy only the basic structure file, index and
data panels . . . not all the other s**t that ends up in the directory.
Now, with discipline I could be writing all the reports and misc.
stuff to a subdirectory but that would require that I maintain
discipline. Not really an option. So what I want to do is create a
program that would automatically invoke itself in the middle of the
night and copy the files I want to backup to another directory on the
network for both safe keeping and that gets included in my daily
online backup regimen. Any thoughts on how I might do that?
*Don Friedman
ProfessionalRecords.Com LLC
PRS Data Systems
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