Hi Spike, on Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:40:20 -0500GMT (26.06.03, 20:40 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :
PM>> How about a regular backup? ;-) PM>> I'm using a batch file that Allie Martin wrote, saving the complete TB! PM>> directory to a RAR archive. It is much easier to use than the TB! PM>> implemented backup feature. If interested tell me, I'll send it. It was PM>> published on TBBETA with PM>> mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S> At 11GB of mail folder and increasing by 1GB per month, this is S> impractical for me. Allie's batch file doesn't add a new backup all the time, but only upgrades the changes. Besides, as a RAR compressed archive it uses about a third of the original space. I'll quote this part of his post so you can see yourself: ******************* -----start------> @Echo off Path C:\Applications\winrar Echo ************************************************ Echo * !! Updating Backup Archive of TB-Mail !! * Echo * (I:\TB Archives\tb-mail.rar) * Echo ************************************************ rar.exe a -u -as "I:\TB Archives\TB-Mail.rar" C:\Applications\Mail Echo ************************************************** Echo * !! Creating RAR Archive of Installation Dir !! * Echo * and registry keys * Echo ************************************************** rar.exe a -u -as "I:\TB Archives\TBBackup.rar" "C:\Applications\The Bat!" Path C:\Windows regedit /e "I:\TB Archives\tbreg.reg" hkey_current_user\software\rit exit ------end------| rar.exe is command line RAR. It works better than winrar.exe for this purpose. The switches after rar.exe will lead to an incremental sort of backup where the archive is analysed and compared with the source files. An incremental update is done to maintain a compressed mirror image. Files or directories no longer present are deleted and files that have been changed/added are updated/added. It's a very reliable setup I've found and very efficient since my large archived bases aren't recopied at each backup. You can change the path to the WinRAR installation directory as well as the backup file names and locations to what you wish. If your mail directory is in your TB! installation directory, i.e., the default location, then you don't need to include the first rar.exe command. The second one will just copy the entire installation directory. The RAR compression is great in that it's fully automated and it tremendously saves space. My mail folder is 609MB and when RAR'd, it's 226MB. ******************* -- Cheers Peter Black Holes were created when God divided by zero. Winamp currently playing: Taste - If The Day Was Any Longer ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
