Re[2]: Backup progress window
Hello Jack, Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 4:03:16 PM, you wrote: JSL I appreciate your suggestion but I'll probably just abandon the idea JSL of automatic or scheduled TB! backups as I manually backup the entire JSL C: drive to the F: drive using Acronis every Saturday. In addition, I JSL also subscribe to Carbonite which automatically (in the background) JSL keeps my entire C: drive backed up off-site in real time. Everybody his own system g. Here once a week with Drive Image C: to another partition and My Documents, including backups of some programs, on a DVD-RW. JSL I'm a little concerned however about your mention of your backup being JSL called ab.tbk. IIRC ab stands for address book. Are you sure you're JSL backing up everything in TB! or is it just the address book? Thanks for your concern, but it is a backup of _everything_in The Bat! I think here ab stands for automatic backup, but I don't remember if that was my or Schedulers choice... -- Best regards, Jos Using The Bat! v4.0.24 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Backup progress window
Hello Jack, Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 6:37:35 PM, you wrote: RO BTW2 No, it isn't possible to start TB's autobackup manually, though RO it appears to be possible to change the time it starts to something RO sooner. JSL I tried this by setting the days counter to the minimum (1 day) and JSL setting the time to now+2 minutes. Sure enough, the autobackup started JSL in a couple of minutes, ran to completion and stored the JSL autobackup.tbk file on the F: drive as specified in the default JSL filename OPTIONSPREFERENCESSYSTEMAUTOBACKUPADVANCED but again, JSL without the date/time embedded in the filename. When it is a task in the Scheduler, right click and 'Execute task now'. Here, autobackup with notification made in the Scheduler, the filename is just ab.tbk. But when I point at this file there is a pop up with date and size. -- Best regards, Jos Using The Bat! v4.0.24 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Backup progress window
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], Monday, June 2, 2008, 4:12:06 AM, you wrote: JSL Hello Dwight, JSL Sunday, June 1, 2008, 4:43:05 PM, you wrote: DC On Sunday, June 1, 2008, 3:46:35 PM, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: What won't work? Reading mail? Are you confirming the machine is essentially locked during the backup? DC No. The machine isn't tied up at all. You just can't get the bat do do DC a backup and do other things at the same time. Makes sense to me. JSL OK. Thank you Dwight and Roelof for the information. I never tried to JSL do anything else with the machine except work in TB while the backup JSL was in progress. JSL Now, if I may beg the audience's indulgence again on this topic - I JSL currently have the standard backup (not an 'update' backup) JSL configured to create a backup file called JSL F:\autobackup-%DATE(-mm-dd)-%TIME(hh-mm-ss).tbk. I assume this JSL would cause a backup file to be created with the filename JSL F:\autobackup-2008-06-02-xx-xx-xx.tbk with the Xs replaced with the JSL time of creation. My F: drive holds all of my machine's backups. JSL Because of this discussion I looked at my F: drive and noticed that JSL the most recent TB! backup file was named: F:\autobackup.tbk with an JSL OS timestamp of 03/25/2008. The backup which caused me to start this JSL discussion was run a couple of weeks ago and was allowed to run to JSL completion. But where did it go? And as you can see, the last backup JSL file is called simply autobackup.tbk without any time/date info as JSL part of the filename. JSL I'd like to experiment with this file naming protocol and find out JSL where the last backup went. Is there a way to manually start TB!'s JSL backup at will? While you await an expert reply, I do manual backups using: Tools Backup Browse for file etc. Select all accounts OK -- Paul - Using The Bat! v4.0.24 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ...Has anyone seen the `ANY' key? Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
