At 5/8/2003 01:00 PM -0400, Garth A. Hamilton - VE3HO wrote: >If you create a batch files that open the program DXBase and have the call >to DXBase in the first line and then program you backup in the lines >following the call to DXBase, the batch file will make the call to DXBase >and then wait to get control back when DXBase closes and then it will >execute the additional lines of code and run your backup as detailed in >your batch file. > >73 Garth
For Windows 2000 you would use ntbackup.exe My batch file looks like this (without the /m switch): d:\dxbase 2004\dxbase2004.exe ntbackup backup D:\dxbase2004 /j "Command Line Backup 4" /f "R:\DXB2004.bkf" /m incremental|differential|daily The D:\dxbase2004 would be replaced with where ever your DXbase files are located. The "R:\DXB2004.bkf" can be replaced with where ever you want to put the backup file .... it could even be a CD-RW, in which case you might want to rotate discs on a 5 day (or week - whatever backup strategy you are going to use) cycle. It takes me 4 min 28 sec to back up 198Mb of DXbase2004 to a network drive over a 10Mbs ethernet connection. The command line would, of course, be different for other operating systems that have a backup utility built into them. I haven't written one for XP yet, but I'm sure it would look somewhat the same. 73 Hank K8DD --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ---
