I think it would be easier to go on the internet and look for a freeware or shareware program that was designed to do incremental backups. I remember a freeware program called Back4WIN that would do what you wanted but is not for WindowsXP. There are other files in DXBase one needs to backup like any label, QSL card or report that has been designed by the user. I just save a copy by hand because these files don't change once I have a final design.
73 Bill WA4OYH -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ron Stordahl Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 10:57 AM To: Jim McDonald Cc: DXbase Reflector Subject: Re: [DXBase] Backup batch file Jim Your suggestion is a good one, however I am wondering if it could be enhanced so as to preserve the last 'N' runs, or maybe the time & date could somehow be incorporated so that a series of backups could be preserved. In the later case it would be the resposibility of the user to delete an excessive number of backup's. I don't know what features are available in BAT files in Windows...I suppose it's documented somewhere. Probably some DXBase user is up to date on this, or has a better solution. Ron, N5IN Jim McDonald wrote: >A few months ago we had a discussion about using a DOS batch file to backup >DXbase files. If you've upgraded to DXbase 2004, don't forget to update it >with the new path for DXbase 2004 instead of 2003. > >BTW, if you don't have one and want to try it, mine looks like this: > >Rem Copy all important DXBase files to a Mapped Drive H: >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.CO" H:\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.mdb" H:\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.ini" H:\DXbBak\ >copy C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts H:\DXbBak >Rem Copy all important DXBase files to another Hard Drive on my system >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.CO" >D:\Backups\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.mdb" >D:\Backups\DXbBak\ >copy "C:\Program files\Scientific Solutions\DXbase 2004\*.ini" >D:\Backups\DXbBak\ >copy C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts D:\Backups\DXbBak\ > >I have a shortcut icon on the desktop and run it with DXbase shutdown. >Takes just a few seconds to run. > >Jim N7US > > >_______________________________________________ >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
