Greetings all, In continuing to research this problem (for me anyway) I discovered an email (http://www.mail-archive.com/tbudl@thebat.dutaint.com/msg89326.html) which contains a regex which supposedly will produce a backup which has a filename containing both the date and time.
With this info I proceeded in this fashion: Under TOOLS>SCHEDULER I get the following display: Please note, the ACTIONS line is highlighted. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4826693567_2b7b6893ca_b.jpg If I right-click on the highlighted ACTION line I get this: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4096/4826749585_39baee5213_b.jpg Clicking on EDIT gives me this: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4826765417_14afdb4daf_b.jpg Notice the "To backup file (standard)" button is selected and further notice the partially visible filename contained in the box. Someone commented on the post mentioned in the above first paragraph that when he tried this regex, TB! produced a backup titled with a 3-or-4-digit-number.tbk. The number preceding the ".tbk" was the time the file was created i.e. if the backup ran at 1105am the file name would be 1105.tbk He mentioned that since a scheduler by definition is always going to run at the same time, the backup would fail apparently because of it attempting to use the same filename. I personally don't know how to use regex expressions but I was able to take the originally posted regex and remove the part which generated the un-needed time string. The resulting regex looks like this: D:\Bat backup\%SETPATTREGEXP="(\d+).(\d+)\.(\d{4})"%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%DATESHORT"%Subpatt="3"%Subpatt="2"%Subpatt="1".tbk. When I told the scheduler to execute the action NOW, this is the resulting file as it appears on my D: drive: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4827422984_610599fba8_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4094/4827423784_9a94e312fa_b.jpg Notice there is no actual filename but only an icon followed by .tbk. However, if you hover the cursor over the icon you get this: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4827438052_79c30877ba_b.jpg As you can see the type, date and size of the file is displayed. I have no idea why an icon is created instead of a text string showing the date but I would love to know. Something in the regex perhaps? Anyway, as a test I created a backup (today, the 25th) which resulted in an icon filename as mentioned, and then changed the date on my computer and generated another backup by the same above method. TB!, apparently recognizing that the original icon filename backup was created "yesterday" (the 25th), overwrote it and created a new icon filename with tomorrow's date(the 26th) appearing in the hover. This apparently solves my original problem and I can run with it but it sure would be neat if TB! created a new, different backup instead of overwriting the existing one. -- TIA, Jack LaRosa Currently using The Bat! ver: 4.0.38 for now. Running Windows XP Pro ver 5 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
