Hi On Tuesday 22 November 2005 at 3:42:26 PM, in <mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MFPA wrote:
> I find that TBBackup.bat takes about 14 minutes when I have just > received a couple of hundred messages in a single Bat! session > (over 12 minutes to backup the mail directory and about 50 seconds > to copy the backup of the mail directory to > d:\TheBatBackups\TBbkup1). I forgot to mention that if the files D:\TheBatBackups\TBbkup\TB_Mail_Directory.7z and D:\TheBatBackups\TBbkup\TB_Program_Directory.7z do not already exist, backing up the mail directory takes well over 20 minutes and the whole process just over half an hour. > If I then use TBStart.bat to open The Bat! but I immediately close > TB! the 12 minutes to backup the mail directory reduces to about 4 > minutes, making a total time to run TBBackup.bat of a little under > 6 minutes. > If I run TBBackup.bat without starting The Bat! since the backup > was last ran, the 12 or 4 minutes reduces to just under 2 minutes, > making a total time of about 3 and a half minutes. > Copying the backup of the mail directory to > d:\TheBatBackups\TBbkup1 always takes 45 to 50 seconds. Even this is much quicker than M$ DOS's COPY function. -- Best regards, MFPA An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous Using The Bat! v3.0.1.33 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
