Here's an extremely simple program you can modify. You need a subdir for sunday, monday, tuesday, wed, thursday, friday, saturday
Since this was a fox 2.5 program, I could only use 8 characters for day of week. Just change the names of the files at the bottom of the program. ********* program backup ******************* set echo off set step off memdir='\foxprow\gem\'+cdow(date()) if memdir="\foxprow\gem\Wednesday" memdir="\foxprow\gem\wed" endif ? memdir run copy debt.cdx &memdir run copy debt.dbf &memdir run copy debt.fpt &memdir run copy gemdebto.dbf &memdir run copy gemdebto.cdx &memdir run copy gemdebto.fpt &memdir run copy payment.cdx &memdir run copy payment.dbf &memdir run copy gemclien.cdx &memdir run copy gemclien.dbf &memdir quit --- On Sat, 7/5/08, KAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: KAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OT] Looking for an automatic backup program. > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 6:21 PM > In the past on this list someone suggested 'Handy > Backup'. I have been using it for a couple of years > with no problems. Now it > recently quit working. I sent the log and other information > to their 'support'. That was last week. No response. > Everyday I am now > using a batch file with XCOPY which works perfectly, > however, I need to automate so it happens between midnight > and early morning. > The task manager won't work with the batch file (as far > as I know) because I want to keep at least 7 older backups > at all times - > so the backup needs to be in a folder with the date in the > name. The backup is on a one computer, but it backs up > folders from 4 > other computers on the network. > > Anyone have ideas? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
