Hello Anne, On Friday, January 24, 2003 at 2:44:02 AM you [A] wrote (at least in part):
A> The help file says you can do incremental backups but for some reason A> (bug?) it's falling over trying. Have you chosen the existing archive and the new archive being the same file? That's a bad idea. The Bat! has to sequentially read the existing archive while backing up to determine if the currently processed message needs to be backed up. Therefore if you overwrite the existing archive with the new one you withdraw The Bat! the base of comparison for incremental backup. The incremental backup in The Bat!, and IIRC in general, ain't a "increment this backup file" way of doing it, but a "take this file as starting point and store the changes since when this backup was created in an incremental file". To restore any incremental backup you always have to restore the one base file and all the incremental changes. That way you can restore to a defined point, e.g. if you notice you've made changes you want to revert. HTH -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v1.63 Beta/5 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 1) Now, Where did I put that Milk?? ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
